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Hidden Fires (1925 film)

1925 film

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 26, 2025
Entity authorityQ21869409 ↗
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Hidden Fires (German: Verborgene Gluten) is a 1925 German silent film directed by Einar Bruun and starring Alfons Fryland, Mary Nolan, and Lisa Deihle. It was made at the Emelka Studios in Munich.

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Gottlieb, Sidney; Brookhouse, Christopher, eds. (2002). Framing Hitchcock: Selected Essays from the Hitchcock Annual. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8143-3061-6.

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The public source identifies “Hidden Fires (1925 film)” as 1925 film. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Hidden, Fires and film.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1925, 2002—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1925. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Hidden, Fires and film 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 Dec 26, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q21869409. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1925 and 2002.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hidden Fires (1925 film)” 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.