The Last Days of Man Tomorrow

DIRECTOR

Fadi Baki

RUN TIME

30 Minutes

LANGUAGE

Arabic

YEAR

2017

Country

Lebanon

English Subtitles

Yes

Genre

Mockumentary, Short

Cast

Jannick Miklitz, Tony Harouni, Romy Melhem

Classification

Restricted to persons aged 15 and over unless accompanied by an adult

Synopsis

A young filmmaker investigates the legend of Manivelle, an automaton gifted to Lebanon in 1945 that still haunts an abandoned mansion in Beirut. After being coaxed back out into the limelight, the people who knew him come forward to speak their mind, and the myth that Manivelle has constructed around himself begins to unravel.

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