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A Woman for a Season

1969 film by Gheorghe Vitanidis

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ2888612 ↗
Source-derived summary

A Woman for a Season (Romanian: Răutăciosul adolescent) is a 1969 Romanian comedy film directed by Gheorghe Vitanidis. It was entered into the 6th Moscow International Film Festival where Irina Petrescu won the award for Best Actress. The film was selected as the Romanian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 42nd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.

Cast

Ioana Bulcă as Dr. Maia Dobrin

Iurie Darie as Dr. Filip Palaloga

Virgil Ogășanu as Dr.

Editorial summary

“A Woman for a Season” enters the record as 1969 film by Gheorghe Vitanidis. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Woman, Season and film 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—1969—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1969-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Woman, Season and film.
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Why this record matters

“A Woman for a Season” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Woman, Season and film provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 Mar 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2888612. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1969.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. 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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This entry incorporates text from “A Woman for a Season” 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.