Name: Everything is True (or Almost): Hergé
Genre: Cinema
Duration: 160 s

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Georges Remi, aka Hergé, was a boisterous child who fed small pebbles to birds... lovely. Thankfully, there was one way of calming him down: drawing. Little did his family know, his hobby was to be the start of a global international career.

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