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White Gold (1949 film)

1949 film

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ25207046 ↗
Source-derived summary

White Gold (German: Weißes Gold) is a 1949 Austrian drama film directed by Eduard von Borsody, and starring Heinrich Gretler, Alma Seidler and Robert Freitag.

The film's art direction was by Julius von Borsody.

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References

Bibliography

Fritsche, Maria. Homemade Men in Postwar Austrian Cinema: Nationhood, Genre and Masculinity. Berghahn Books, 2013.

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The public source identifies “White Gold (1949 film)” as 1949 film. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around White, Gold and film.

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—1949, 2013—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1949. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with White, Gold 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 Mar 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q25207046. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1949 and 2013.

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This entry incorporates text from “White Gold (1949 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.