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Before the Flood

Before the Flood

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📜 Overview: 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.
🌏 Languages Available: Mandarin
📆 Date Released: 2005-02-16
⌚ Running Time: 150 mins
⭐ Vote Average: 10.0

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