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Before the Flood

2005 150 min Chinese
Wubly rating 7.3 IMDb rating 7.2

Before the Flood is a study of the final weeks of a dying city, as thousand-year-old Fengjie on the Yangtze River is reduced to rubble and its inhabitants uprooted to make way for the new Three Gorges Dam that will flood the entire valley.

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Li Yifan Director · Yan Yu Director

United States release January 1, 2012 · Produced in China · Original title 淹没

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China

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Original title

淹没

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Chinese

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Chinese

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China · February 16, 2005

Theatrical · Icarus Films / dGenerate Films

United States · January 1, 2012

Theatrical · Icarus Films / dGenerate Films

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