Movie: Under Construction (Or The Place Where I Was Born No Longer Exists)

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    Agüero is able to look at the scene in all it's complexity around architectonical brutality that Santiago de Chile underwent around the year 2000.

  • Release Date

    2000-08-24

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    7

  • Rating:

    3.5 starts
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    Español
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