The Real Thing (2018)
• May 1st, 2018 • 0h 55min
Documentary, TV Movie
Overview
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.
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