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A Land for All

1962 film by Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ24514581 ↗
Source-derived summary

A Land for All (Spanish: Tierra de todos) is a 1962 Spanish war film directed by Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi and starring Manuel Gallardo, Fernando Cebrián and Montserrat Julió.

Main cast

Manuel Gallardo as Juan

Fernando Cebrián as Andrés

Montserrat Julió as Teresa

Amparo Baró as María

Lluís Torner as Pedro

Juan Lizárraga as Rafa

Fernando Repiso as Chico

María Zaldívar as Manuela

Antonio Andrada as Don Elías

References

Bibliography

Bentley, Bernard P. E. (2008). A Companion to Spanish Cinema. Boydell & Brewer Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85566-176-9.

Editorial summary

“A Land for All” enters the record as 1962 film by Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Land, film and Antonio 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—1962, 2008—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1962, 1962-03-22—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Land, film and Antonio.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“A Land for All” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Land, film and Antonio provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

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 May 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q24514581. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1962 and 2008.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. 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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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “A Land for All”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow A Land for All primary sources, A Land for All archive and Land 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 “A Land for All”?
  2. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
  3. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
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This entry incorporates text from “A Land for All” 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.