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Real life in fake cities

The Real Thing

7.6 2018 55m
DocumentaryTV Movie

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.

Directed by Benoît Felici

VISUAL ARCHIVE

Selected stills from the film

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CAST

The people behind the story

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Benoît FeliciSelf - Narrator (voice)
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Bianca BoskerSelf - Photographer
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Stanislas SkuzaSelf - Priest
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Jean-Noël LoucouSelf - Priest
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Anthony MackaySelf - Architect
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Jean-François StaszakSelf - Geographer
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