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Before the Flood

10.020052h 30mMovieDocumentary

Before the Flood is a study of the final weeks of a dying city, as thousand-year-old Fengjie on the Yangtze River is reduced to rubble and its inhabitants uprooted to make way for the new Three Gorges Dam that will flood the entire valley.

DirectorsYu Yan·Li Yifan

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