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A Man's Word

1919 film by Erik Lund

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 26, 2025
Entity authorityQ16551459 ↗
Source-derived summary

A Man's Word (German:Eines Mannes Wort) is a 1919 German silent film directed by Erik Lund and starring Bruno Kaster.

Editorial summary

“A Man's Word” enters the record as 1919 film by Erik Lund. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Man's, Word and film can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1919—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1919-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Man's, Word and film.
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Why this record matters

“A Man's Word” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Man's, Word and film provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

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 Q16551459. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1919.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. 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.

How to read it

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “A Man's Word” 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.