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Fri 10 Oct 2007StardustThe prologue of Stardust begins in a village called Wall, named after the structure separating it from a supernatural parallel universe on the other side. The time is the mid-19th century, when border security is altogether more lax than it would be in the modern world, and represented solely by an elderly guardian (David Kelly) apparently on round-the-clock duty.Stardust **