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Family Goldmine

Name: Family Goldmine
Director: Robbie Fraser
Released: 2014
Duration: 78 mins

Synopsis

After trying his luck as upholsterer to the king of Saudi Arabia, and having lost almost everything on importing Chinese tractors, the French dreamer Claude Nicolay risks everything for his latest idea: he wants to open an eco-friendly gold mine in Mali in collaboration with the locals. But as his patient wife remarks, there is just one problem: he has absolutely no experience with modern mining.

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Year: 2014
Type of project: Features
Running time: 78 mins
Director: Robbie Fraser
Producer: Robbie Fraser
Executive Producer: Ewan Angus, Richard Melman, Andre Singer
Director of Photography: Douglas Campbell, Robbie Fraser

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Pure Magic Films

Glenlockhart House
6 The Steils
Edinburgh
EH10 5XD

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