

Coronavirus: The Beijing Quarantine Diaries
2020-02-28 · 37 min · ★ 4.0
Beijing, China, 2020. Empty streets, mandatory masks, checkpoints, the entire state apparatus used to impose severe restrictions on population movements. An entire country quarantined to fight a fierce epidemic…
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- Directors
- Anthony Dufour, Mathias Lavergne, Camille Toulmé, Sébastien Le Belzic
- Production companies
- ARTE GEIE, Hikari
- Countries
- France
- Status
- Released
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