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Bethlehem Night

2022 film directed by Jan Svěrák

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ106206819 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bethlehem Night (Czech: Betlémské světlo) is a 2022 film directed by Jan Svěrák and written by his father Zdeněk Svěrák, who also stars in the film. It is a comedy based on three short stories written by Zdeněk Svěrák: Ruslan and Ludmila,Fotograf and Bethlehem Night.

Editorial summary

“Bethlehem Night” enters the record as 2022 film directed by Jan Svěrák. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bethlehem, Night and film can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2022—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2022-03-10. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Bethlehem, Night and film.
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Why this record matters

“Bethlehem Night” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Bethlehem, Night and film provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q106206819. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2022.

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Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bethlehem Night” 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.