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About 2000 three part TV mini-series directed by John Harrison
Genres science fiction
Created by John Harrison
Written by John Harrison
Starring William Hurt, Giancarlo Giannini, Ian McNeice, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Saskia Reeves, Klára Issová, Matt Keeslar, Alec Newman
Music Graeme Revell
Length 1 seasons, 3 episodes, 265 min each
Network Syfy
Country United States, Italy, United Kingdom, Germany
Links TMDB · IMDb · Letterboxd · Wikipedia · Wikidata
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