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- ↑ DeCelles p.180
- ↑ "Eine Nacht in Yoshiwara | filmportal.de".
- ↑ Vogt, Guntram (15 January 2014). Die Stadt im Kino: Deutsche Spielfilme 1900-2000 (in German). Schüren Verlag. ISBN 978-3-89472-787-1.
- ↑ DeCelles, Naomi (8 November 2022). Recollecting Lotte Eisner: Cinema, Exile, and the Archive. Univ of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-38813-0.
