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The Real Thing

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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·Benjamin Landsberger

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Cast · Directed by Benoît Felici

Benoît Felici

Self - Narrator (voice)

Jean-François Staszak

Self - Geographer

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