Still, a disclaimer at the beginning of the movie proclaims it is a work of fiction "based on the lives of real people," and Durringer, too, insisted he wasn't worried about the film's historical accuracy.
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"No one can say _ even the politicians themselves, can't say _ that things happened exactly like this or that," Durringer said at a news conference.
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