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The Real Thing

The Real Thing

★ 7.6/10•2018•55m•Documentary•TV Movie

Real life in fake cities

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.

Benoît Felici · Director

Benoît Felici · Writer

StatusReleased
Runtime55m
LanguageFR
Release DateMay 1, 2018

Actors

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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