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Svinedrengen og prinsessen på ærten

1962 film by Bent Christensen

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ7652696 ↗
Source-derived summary

Svinedrengen og prinsessen på ærten (literally The Swineherd and the Princess on the Pea) is a 1962 Danish animated film directed by Poul Ilsøe and starring Dirch Passer. It is based, respectively, on the Hans Christian Andersen tales The Swineherd and "The Princess and the Pea.

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The public source identifies “Svinedrengen og prinsessen på ærten” as 1962 film by Bent Christensen. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Svinedrengen, prinsessen and ærten.

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—1962—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1962-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Svinedrengen, prinsessen and ærten providing the first useful test.
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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7652696. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1962.

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This entry incorporates text from “Svinedrengen og prinsessen på ærten” 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.