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- ↑ "Keswick Film Festival - Satanic Angels".
- ↑ "The Satanic Angels". 18 December 2007.
- ↑ "Africiné - Anges de Satan (Les)".
- African Film Festival of Cordoba-FCAT (license CC BY-SA-3.0)
- The Satanic Angels at IMDb
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