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ABOUT WATER

Austria, Luxembourg, 2007 (82 min.) EEPl

Dir, Udo Maurer

The best part of this Austrian doc is that it doesn't beat the viewer about the head with its ecological message: Rather than tell us about the perilous state of water around the world, the director shows us. The three segments of the film explore the dramatic ...

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