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Engineering Red

Engineering Red ( ) is a 1993 Russian surrealist part-documentary/part-narrative film by Andrey Yi and animator Armen Petrosyan. The script is based on Thomas Mann's novel The Magic Mountain (1924) and the idea of creating artificial people in the Soviet Union (in the 1940-1950s).

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Engineering Red ( ) is a 1993 Russian surrealist part-documentary/part-narrative film by Andrey Yi and animator Armen Petrosyan. The script is based on Thomas Mann's novel The Magic Mountain (1924) and the idea of creating artificial people in the Soviet Union (in the 1940-1950s).

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