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Dawn

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Dawn

1979

0h 21m

6.1(7 votes)

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Szirtes's masterful experimental work is a dazzling composition of several years of filming within an industrial macro/microcosm, an abstract model of revolution and the beauty of daybreak.

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Directed by: András Szirtes

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