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- ↑ "Jak svět přichází o básníky: Proč komunisté nechtěli pustit film do kin?" [How the World Is Losing Poets: Why Didn't the Communists Want to Put the Film in Cinemas?]. iprima.cz (in Czech). 1 April 2019. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
- ↑ "Život je kompromis – básnická hexalogie" [Life Is a Compromise – Poets Hexalogy]. filmovyprehled.cz (in Czech). 13 April 2016. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
