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Surrounded (1960 film)

1960 film by Arne Skouen

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 2, 2025
Entity authorityQ11993826 ↗
Source-derived summary

Surrounded (Norwegian: Omringet) is a Norwegian film from 1960 directed by Arne Skouen.

Plot

The film describes how the resistance fighter Per, modeled on Knut Haugland, operated an illegal telegraph station on the roof of the National Hospital in 1944 during the Second World War.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Surrounded (1960 film)” as 1960 film by Arne Skouen. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Surrounded, film and Arne.

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—1960, 1944—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1960-09-12. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Surrounded, film and Arne 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 Jul 2, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q11993826. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1960 and 1944.

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This entry incorporates text from “Surrounded (1960 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.