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name: "Jean-Pierre Sergent"
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born: "11 August 1940"
died: "14 July 2024"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T04:41:50.490411+00:00"
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# Jean-Pierre Sergent

Actor. Born 11 August 1940 in Plouézec, Côtes-d'Armor, France. Died 14 July 2024.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 11 August 1940, Plouézec, Côtes-d'Armor, France
- **Died:** 14 July 2024
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22249278, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1331277/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1350872

## Streaming the US now

- **The Criterion Channel:** [*Chronicle of a Summer*](https://film.one/film/chronicle-of-a-summer.md) (86)

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## Biography

Jean-Pierre Sergent was a French director, writer and journalist. Born on 11 August 1940 in Plouézec, Côtes-d’Armor, he appeared as himself in the cinéma vérité documentary *Chronicle of a Summer* (1961) while a philosophy student alongside Régis Debray and Marceline Loridan.

He co-directed the political documentaries *Algérie, année zéro* (1965) and *Rio Chiquito* (1965), and directed *The People and Their Guns* (1970). Sergent co-wrote the screenplay for *The Birch-Tree Meadow* (2003) with Loridan-Ivens. He later became a journalist, serving as editor of the magazine *Ça m’intéresse* with a focus on ecology and geopolitics. He died on 14 July 2024.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, lemonde.fr.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Chronicle of a Summer* (1961), Fi1m 86, as Self — [page](https://film.one/film/chronicle-of-a-summer.md)

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