The Caucasus and Hollywood

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Actor Andy Garcia is in Georgia to play the part of President Mikheil Saakashvili in a film about last year’s conflict with Russia. The biggest-budget movie ever to be made on Georgian soil, tells the story of a journalist and a cameraman caught up in the unfolding drama of the war last August. Carol Hills reports.

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