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The Ruin

The Ruin

The Ruin

2018•10m

Now, in the era we live in, we are surrounded by a variety of ideas, and each of these ideas and thoughts is given to us in many ways. The Art and The Media play an important role as two important tools for forcing and pushing information, but these two important tools go so far as to get something that takes their lives and lose control of humanity and is nothing but The Ruin.

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Production

The Rebels Productions

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Mahdi Falahati

Mahdi Falahati

Armin Mokhtari

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