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- ↑ "Daisy Granados Biography". lahiguera. Retrieved 20 January 2013.
- ↑ "11th Moscow International Film Festival (1979)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 3 April 2014. Retrieved 20 January 2013.
- ↑ "14th Moscow International Film Festival (1985)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 16 March 2013. Retrieved 8 February 2013.
- ↑ Chanan, Michael (2004). Cuban Cinema (2nd ed.). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 0-8166-3423-8.
