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Chinese Journey: 1: Across the Gobi Desert to the Sacred Caves

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The second showing of the first of two films by Claude Arthaud and Francois Hebert-Stevens.
Three years ago two young French archaeologists set out to explore and film the sacred Buddhist Caves of Northern China. They approached them from Central Asia, filming on the way the strange Soviet city of Ulan Bator, the capital of Mongolia, and penetrating into China across the Great Wall.

Contributors

Filmmaker/archaeologist:
Claude Arthaud
Filmmaker/archaeologist:
Francois Hebert-Stevens
Narrator:
David Attenborough
Editor:
Robert Walter
Presented by:
Malcolm Brown

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