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Tanya (1976 film)

1976 film

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ7683963 ↗
Source-derived summary

Tanya is a low-budget 1976 comedy film directed by Nate Rodgers and loosely based on the experiences of Patty Hearst. The lead character, Charlotte Kane, is 20-year-old heiress of a newspaper mogul. She is kidnapped by five sex-crazed pseudo-revolutionaries who call themselves "The Symphonic Liberation Army" (a parody of the Symbionese Liberation Army). Charlotte is quickly converted to their cause and changes her name to Tanya.

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“Tanya (1976 film)” enters the record as 1976 film. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Tanya 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—1976—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Tanya and film.
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“Tanya (1976 film)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Tanya and film provides the most credible route into that argument.

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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 Feb 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7683963. The first chronological checks are 1976.

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This entry incorporates text from “Tanya (1976 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.