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The Fate of Maria Keith

1919 film by Rudolf Walther-Fein

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ22969533 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Fate of Maria Keith (German:Das Schicksal der Maria Keith) is a 1919 German silent film directed by Rudolf Walther-Fein and starring Hans Werder, Maria Zelenka and Hans Wallner.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “The Fate of Maria Keith” as 1919 film by Rudolf Walther-Fein. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Fate, Maria and Keith.

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—1919—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1919-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Fate, Maria and Keith 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 Mar 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q22969533. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1919.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Fate of Maria Keith” 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.