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The Beauty of Vice

1986 film by Živko Nikolić

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ4239792 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Beauty of Vice (Serbian: Lepota poroka, Лепота порока) is a 1986 Yugoslav drama film directed by Živko Nikolić.

The film sold 866,474 tickets at the box office.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “The Beauty of Vice” is 1986 film by Živko Nikolić. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Beauty, Vice and film, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1986—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1986-01-01, 1987-05-07—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. For this dossier, Beauty, Vice and film is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “1986 film by Živko Nikolić” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4239792. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1986.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. 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.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
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The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “The Beauty of Vice”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow The Beauty of Vice primary sources, The Beauty of Vice archive and Beauty research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “The Beauty of Vice”?
  2. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
  3. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “The Beauty of Vice” 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.