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- 1 2 "The Buffalo Film Seminars, February 8, 2011. (XXII:4) Luchino Visconti, OSSESSIONE/OBSESSION (1943, 140 min)" (PDF). February 8, 2011. Retrieved 2015-06-14.
- ↑ Moliterno, Gino (2008). Historical Dictionary of Italian Cinema (Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810862548.
