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Five (1964 film)

1964 film by Paweł Komorowski

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ11818835 ↗
Source-derived summary

Pięciu ("Five") is a 1964 Polish drama film directed by Paweł Komorowski, and written by Aleksander Baumgardten.

Editorial summary

“Five (1964 film)” enters the record as 1964 film by Paweł Komorowski. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Five, film and Paweł can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1964—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1964-12-02. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Five, film and Paweł.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Five (1964 film)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Five, film and Paweł provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q11818835. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1964.

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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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Five (1964 film)”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Five (1964 film) primary sources, Five (1964 film) archive and Five 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

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  2. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
  3. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
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This entry incorporates text from “Five (1964 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.