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Edwin Zbonek

Austrian film director (1928–2006)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ89406 ↗
Source-derived summary

Edwin Zbonek (28 March 1928 – 29 May 2006) was an Austrian film director and screenwriter. He directed 14 films between 1960 and 1982. His film Man and Beast was entered into the 13th Berlin International Film Festival.

Selected filmography

Twenty Brave Men (1960)

Deutschland – deine Sternchen (1962)

Man and Beast (1963)

The Hangman of London (1963)

The Monster of London City (1964)

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Edwin Zbonek” is austrian film director (1928–2006). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Edwin, Zbonek and Austrian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1928, 2006, 1960, 1982—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1928-03-28. For this dossier, Edwin, Zbonek and Austrian is the immediate research focus.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q89406. VIAF identifies the subject as 88486538. The Library of Congress control number is no2009071092. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1928, 2006, 1960 and 1982.

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This entry incorporates text from “Edwin Zbonek” 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.