# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paulin-soumanou-vieyra
# Generated: 2026-08-16T01:36:22.491Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paulin-soumanou-vieyra"
name: "Paulin Soumanou Vieyra"
slug: "paulin-soumanou-vieyra"
description: "Paulin Soumanou Vieyra was a Beninese/Senegalese film director and historian. As he lived in Senegal after the age of 10, he is more associated with that nation. He is known for his 1955 film Afrique-sur-Seine, the first Francophone African film."
tagline: "Senegalese film director (1925–1987)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paulin_Soumanou_Vieyra.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1925-01-31"
deathDate: "1987-11-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.39
  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.209468
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0896895/"
    handle:    "nm0896895"
sources:
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    title: "Paulin Soumanou Vieyra"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paulin Soumanou Vieyra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paulin Soumanou Vieyra"
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    title: "Պոլեն Սումանու Վիեյրա"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paulin Soumanou Vieyra"
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    title: "Paulin Soumanou Vieyra"
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    title: "Вьейра, Полен Суману"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Paulin Soumanou Vieyra"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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