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A Strange Guest

1936 film by Gerhard Lamprecht

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 26, 2025
Entity authorityQ20814780 ↗
Source-derived summary

A Strange Guest (German: Ein seltsamer Gast) is a 1936 German drama film directed by Gerhard Lamprecht and starring Alfred Abel, Ilse Petri and Kurt Fischer-Fehling.

The film's sets were designed by the art directors Kurt Dürnhöfer and Otto Moldenhauer.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “A Strange Guest” as 1936 film by Gerhard Lamprecht. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Strange, Guest and film.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1936—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1936-04-08. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Strange, Guest and film providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “A Strange Guest”, the useful work is to connect “1936 film by Gerhard Lamprecht” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 26, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q20814780. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1936.

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This entry incorporates text from “A Strange Guest” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.