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In Adam's Dress and a Bit in Eve's Too (1971 film)

1971 film directed by Matti Kassila

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 19, 2025
Entity authorityQ12269761 ↗
Source-derived summary

In Adam's Dress and a Bit in Eve's Too (Finnish: Aatamin puvussa... ja vähän Eevankin) is a 1971 Finnish comedy film directed and written by Matti Kassila, starring Heikki Kinnunen and Juha Hyppönen. The film is based on the novel Aatamin puvussa ja vähän Eevankin by Yrjö Soini. Its running time is 88 minutes.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “In Adam's Dress and a Bit in Eve's Too (1971 film)” as 1971 film directed by Matti Kassila. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Adam's, Dress and Eve's.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1971—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Adam's, Dress and Eve's providing the first useful test.
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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 19, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q12269761. The first chronological checks are 1971.

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This entry incorporates text from “In Adam's Dress and a Bit in Eve's Too (1971 film)” 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.