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- ↑ Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York, NY: Berghahn Books. p. 497. ISBN 1571816550. JSTOR j.ctt1x76dm6.
