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The Real Thing

7.6201855mMovieDocumentaryTV 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.

DirectorBenoît Felici
WriterBenoît Felici
ProducersOlivier Mille·Victoire Buff

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Cast · Directed by Benoît Felici

BF
Benoît Felici
Self - Narrator (voice)
BB
Bianca Bosker
Self - Photographer
SS
Stanislas Skuza
Self - Priest
JL
Jean-Noël Loucou
Self - Priest
AM
Anthony Mackay
Self - Architect
JS
Jean-François Staszak
Self - Geographer

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The Real Thing hasn't started streaming in Canada yet. Based on the typical 6–8 week theatrical-to-streaming window, we estimate it will arrive around June 19, 2018. This is a prediction, not a confirmed date.