“Real life in fake cities”
The Real Thing
7.6
5 votes·2018
·55m
·MovieDocumentaryTV 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.
Keywords
shanghai, chinaarchitectureeiffel tower, parisarchitecture historytaj mahal, indiamonumentshangzhou, chinasuzhou, chinalondon bridge
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