Illuminated Texts
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Canada · 1982
2h 54m
Director R. Bruce Elder
Starring R. Bruce Elder, Anna Pafomow, Henry Jesionka, James D. Smith
Genre Documentary
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"Breathtaking in its techniques, rhapsodic in its passion, and encyclopedia in its scope, the film traces the long fall from paradise into modern barbarism." Art Gallery of Ontario
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