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Man's Fate (1970)

Man's Fate poster
Directed by
Fred Zinnemann
Country
United States

How it feels

A film that was never completed, this would have been a historical drama about revolutionaries in 1920s Shanghai. It follows Chinese and European characters caught up in a failed communist uprising.

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What happens

Man's Fate was an abandoned 1969 film adaptation of the novel Man's Fate by Andre Malraux to have been directed by Fred Zinnemann and produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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