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The Dragon Defense

2017 film directed by Natalia Santa

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ30639982 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Dragon Defense (Spanish: La defensa del dragón) is a 2017 Colombian drama film directed by Natalia Santa. The Spanish-language film was screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “The Dragon Defense” as 2017 film directed by Natalia Santa. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Dragon, Defense and film.

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—2017—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2017. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Dragon, Defense and film providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “The Dragon Defense”, the useful work is to connect “2017 film directed by Natalia Santa” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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 Jun 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q30639982. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2017.

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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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “The Dragon Defense”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow The Dragon Defense primary sources, The Dragon Defense archive and Dragon 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.

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  3. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
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This entry incorporates text from “The Dragon Defense” 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.