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- ↑ "Django Unchained di Quentin Tarantino - nuovo poster italiano più trailer interattivo". Cineblog. December 24, 2012.
- ↑ Nash, Jay Robert (1 November 2019). The Encyclopedia of Best Films: A Century of All the Finest Movies, V-Z. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 3285. ISBN 9781538134191.
