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Round Eyes in the Middle Kingdom

Round Eyes in the Middle Kingdom

1996•51m
Documentary

Filmmaker Ronald Levaco, journeys back to China, the nation of his boyhood days, to discover what became of an old friend of his family, Israel Epstein.

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