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Free Spirit (film)

1951 film

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ3083738 ↗
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Free Spirit (Spanish: Alma liberada) is a 1951 Argentine drama film directed and written by Edmundo del Solar during the classical era of Argentine cinema. The film premiered on 9 July 1951 in Buenos Aires.

The film starred Juan Corona, María de la Fuente, Pilar Gómez, Iván Grondona and Josefina Ríos. Director Edmundo del Solar also appeared in the film.

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The public source identifies “Free Spirit (film)” as 1951 film. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Free, Spirit and film.

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—1951—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1951-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Free, Spirit and film providing the first useful test.
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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 Mar 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3083738. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1951.

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This entry incorporates text from “Free Spirit (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.