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Wet Dog

2021 German drama film

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ7989958 ↗
Source-derived summary

Wet Dog (German: Ein nasser Hund) is a 2021 German drama film written and directed by Damir Lukačević, based on the autobiography Ein nasser Hund ist besser als ein trockener Jude by Arye Sharuz Shalicar. It tells the story of an Iranian-born Jewish teenager whose family moves to the Berlin district of Wedding.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Wet Dog” as 2021 German drama film. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around German, drama and film.

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—2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with German, drama and film providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Wet Dog”, the useful work is to connect “2021 German drama film” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7989958. VIAF identifies the subject as 156736804. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2021.

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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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
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The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Wet Dog”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Wet Dog primary sources, Wet Dog archive and German 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 “Wet Dog”?
  2. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
  3. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Wet Dog” 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.