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Review: ‘The Great Wall’

by Tyler Prozeniuk
January 4, 2017December 12, 2021
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Tadhg O’Sullivan’s The Great Wall provokes curiosity as a doc about the migrant crisis and the fortification European borders, based on a 1917 story by Franz Kafka

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