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Flame Over Vietnam

1957 film directed by José María Elorrieta

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ43302444 ↗
Source-derived summary

Flame Over Vietnam, Original title: Una cruz en el infierno, is a 1957 Spanish film directed by José María Elorrieta.

Plot

A nun arrives at a religious mission in the middle of the First Indochina War and soon becomes friends with refugee children. One day, a trafficker is injured and taken to the mission, where he falls in love with the nun.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Flame Over Vietnam” as 1957 film directed by José María Elorrieta. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Flame, Over and Vietnam.

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—1957—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1957. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Flame, Over and Vietnam providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Flame Over Vietnam”, the useful work is to connect “1957 film directed by José María Elorrieta” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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 Jun 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q43302444. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1957.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. 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

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
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The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Flame Over Vietnam”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Flame Over Vietnam primary sources, Flame Over Vietnam archive and Flame research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Flame Over Vietnam”?
  2. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
  3. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Flame Over Vietnam” 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.