Mao, the Real Man

Mao, the Real Man

★ 9.4IMDb Score
Released:1995-02-16
Duration:55 min
Country:Hungary
Director:Szilveszter Siklósi
Actors:Philip Balla, Margit Huckaby, András Sándor, Mao Zedong
Production:

Overview:

What is the connection between the bloody gang war that once raged over control of the Chicago fish market, the decades of terror perpetrated by the Chinese, Russian, and Italian mafias, the secret operations of the CIA and the KGB, the Cuban revolution, and the Kennedy assassination? And who is the 100-year-old monk who is revered as a saint in a Nepalese monastery and in whose body the presence of a strange crystal can be detected? Szilveszter Siklósi's thrilling "documentary" provides striking and convincing answers to questions that have preoccupied the world's public for nearly a generation.

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