The Real Thing
Real life in fake cities
May 1, 2018
55 min
FR
✓ Released 3030 days ago
Documentary
TV Movie
7.6
User Score
5 votes
About
A smaller scale Eiffel Tower and the Champs-Elysées can be found just outside Shanghai; a copy of St. Peter’s in Rome can be found in Yamoussoukro, in the Ivory Coast: a journey over three continents to see the architecture of imitation, the uncanny world of the fake.
Movie Info
Status: Released
Director: Benoît Felici
Runtime: 55 min
Top Cast
Benoît Felici
Self - Narrator (voice)
Bianca Bosker
Self - Photographer
Stanislas Skuza
Self - Priest
Jean-Noël Loucou
Self - Priest
Anthony Mackay
Self - Architect
Jean-François Staszak
Self - Geographer
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