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- ↑ "Festival de Cannes: Fanfare". festival-cannes.com. Archived from the original on 15 September 2012. Retrieved 14 February 2009.
- ↑ "1st Moscow International Film Festival (1959)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 16 January 2013. Retrieved 27 October 2012.
