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The One-Eyed King

2016 film by Marc Crehuet

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ26000006 ↗
Source-derived summary

The One-Eyed King (Catalan: El rei borni) is a 2016 Spanish comedy film based on play by Marc Crehuet.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “The One-Eyed King” is 2016 film by Marc Crehuet. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through One-Eyed, King and film, not as a finished interpretation.

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—2016—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2016. For this dossier, One-Eyed, King and film is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “2016 film by Marc Crehuet” 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 Mar 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q26000006. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2016.

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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  • Tracing reception history
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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “The One-Eyed King”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow The One-Eyed King primary sources, The One-Eyed King archive and One-Eyed 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 One-Eyed King”?
  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 One-Eyed King” 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.