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Apted and Ebert (Part 4 of 5)
In an interview with film critic Roger Ebert, Filmmaker Michael Apted praises his participants in '49 Up' for the dignity with which they have conducted themselves over the past 42 years and talks about how he thinks one big achievement of the "Up" series is that the participants elevated ordinary life to real drama in a dignified way.
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