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Finding the Telepathic Cinema of Manchuria

Finding the Telepathic Cinema of Manchuria

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Finding the Telepathic Cinema of Manchuria

2010

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An expansive research project that takes us in a flashback to the reconstruction of a lost film production in Manchuria, the doomed epic entitled The Lost Tribes. (M HKA)

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Directed by: David Blair
Written by: David Blair
Produced by: David Blair

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