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Wanda Warenine

1917 film by Riccardo Tolentino

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ20002694 ↗
Source-derived summary

Wanda Warenine is a 1917 Italian silent film directed by Riccardo Tolentino and starring Joaquín Carrasco, Fabienne Fabrèges and Bonaventura Ibáñez. It is based on a story by Alexander Pushkin.

Cast

Joaquín Carrasco

Fabienne Fabrèges as Wanda Warenine

Bonaventura Ibáñez

Domenico Serra

References

Bibliography

Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

Editorial summary

“Wanda Warenine” enters the record as 1917 film by Riccardo Tolentino. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Wanda, Warenine and film 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—1917, 1999—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1917-07. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Wanda, Warenine and film.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Wanda Warenine” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Wanda, Warenine and film 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 Jan 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q20002694. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1917 and 1999.

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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  2. Expand the search: follow Wanda Warenine primary sources, Wanda Warenine archive and Wanda 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.

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This entry incorporates text from “Wanda Warenine” 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.