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The Earth Is a Sinful Song

1973 film by Rauni Mollberg

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ4353149 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Earth Is a Sinful Song, The earth of our ancestors (Finnish: Maa on syntinen laulu) is a 1973 Finnish drama film directed by Rauni Mollberg and based on the novel Maa on syntinen laulu by late Finnish author Timo K. Mukka. It was entered into the 24th Berlin International Film Festival. The film was also selected as the Finnish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 46th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. It was the most successful film in Finland between 1972 and 1976.

Editorial summary

“The Earth Is a Sinful Song” enters the record as 1973 film by Rauni Mollberg. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Earth, Sinful and Song can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1973, 1972, 1976—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1973-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Earth, Sinful and Song.
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Why this record matters

“The Earth Is a Sinful Song” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Earth, Sinful and Song provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 Feb 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4353149. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1973, 1972 and 1976.

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.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Earth Is a Sinful Song” 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.