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- 1 2 Mette Hjort & Ib Bondebjerg, The Danish Directors: Dialogues on a Contemporary National Cinema (Intellect Books, 2003), ISBN 978-1-84150-841-2, pp. 54-57. Excerpts available at Google Books.
- 1 2 Jean Nathan, "Film; A Writer Who Means Norway to Movie Makers", The New York Times , November 5, 1995.
- ↑ Arne Lund, "Knut Hamsun at the movies in transnational contexts", Nordlit, vol. 25, pp. 43, 48.