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Porcupines Are Born Without Bristles

1971 film by Dimitar Petrov

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ6902267 ↗
Source-derived summary

Porcupines Are Born Without Bristles (Bulgarian: Таралежите се раждат без бодли, translit. Taralezhite se razhdat bez bodli, and also known as Hedgehogs Are Born Without Spines) is a 1971 Bulgarian comedy film directed by Dimitar Petrov. It was entered into the 1972 Melbourne International Film Festival. The film was selected as the Bulgarian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 44th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Porcupines Are Born Without Bristles” as 1971 film by Dimitar Petrov. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Porcupines, Born and Without.

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—1971, 1972—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Porcupines, Born and Without providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Porcupines Are Born Without Bristles”, the useful work is to connect “1971 film by Dimitar Petrov” 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 Aug 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6902267. The first chronological checks are 1971 and 1972.

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This entry incorporates text from “Porcupines Are Born Without Bristles” 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.