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Why does there exist a global American entertainment industry, but there isn't an equivalent coming from France or Italy? This is the case simply because the English language opens the whole world to the American cinema.

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Andrzej Wajda
Age: 90 †
Born: 1926
Born: March 6
Died: 2016
Died: October 9
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