# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jans-rautenbach
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:17:48.635Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jans-rautenbach"
name: "Jans Rautenbach"
slug: "jans-rautenbach"
description: "Jans Rautenbach was a South African screenwriter, film producer and director. His 1968 film Die Kandidaat proved controversial and received some censorship in South Africa, because of perceived criticism of the apartheid system. His last film, Abraham, was a hit at the South African box office."
tagline: "South African film director (1936-2016)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1936-02-22"
deathDate: "2016-11-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.43
  momentum:             3.256814921090387
  historical:           6.606264
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0712192/"
    handle:    "nm0712192"
sources:
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jans_Rautenbach"
    title: "Jans Rautenbach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jans_Rautenbach"
    title: "Jans Rautenbach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B4"
    title: "چانس راوتينباتش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jans_Rautenbach"
    title: "Jans Rautenbach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jans_Rautenbach"
    title: "Jans Rautenbach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jans_Rautenbach"
    title: "Jans Rautenbach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jans_Rautenbach"
    title: "Jans Rautenbach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6155523"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1164852"
    title: "Jans Rautenbach"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump