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The Goldcabbage Family Breaks the Bank

1976 film by Gabriel Axel

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ12311033 ↗
Source-derived summary

Familien Gyldenkål sprænger banken (transl. "The Goldcabbage Family Breaks the Bank") is a 1976 Danish comedy film directed by Gabriel Axel.

It was the second in a series of three films about the eccentric Gyldenkål family, a sequel to Familien Gyldenkål (1975) also directed by Axel, and followed by Familien Gyldenkål vinder valget (1977) directed by Bent Christensen.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “The Goldcabbage Family Breaks the Bank” as 1976 film by Gabriel Axel. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1976, 1975, 1977—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1976-12-26. The account is most persuasive where Goldcabbage, Family and Breaks can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 1976 film by Gabriel Axel. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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 Mar 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q12311033. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1976, 1975 and 1977.

Critical limits

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 “The Goldcabbage Family Breaks the Bank” 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.