La 317e section (1965)
(Sangre en Indochina)
Country: FR/SP
Technical: bw 100m
Director: Pierre Schoendoerffer
Cast: Bruno Cremer, Pierre Fabre, Jacques Perrin
Synopsis:
In 1954 Vietnam, at the time of Diên Biên Phu, a French unit on patrol under the command of an inexperienced lieutenant is gradually depleted by Vietminh until only an ex-Wehrmacht Alsatian adjutant remains. He is to die, a title informs us, in Algeria in 1960.
Review:
Semi-documentary in style, this is an effectively low-key appraisal of the difficult choices with which war confronts its soldiers. As so often in Vietnam films the enemy is only glimpsed from a distance, the camera remaining a disembodied observer among the group. Bertrand Tavernier acted as co-writer on the film. Schoendoerffer, apparently a participant in the events, went on to make a film of "Diên Biên Phu" itself.
(Sangre en Indochina)
Country: FR/SP
Technical: bw 100m
Director: Pierre Schoendoerffer
Cast: Bruno Cremer, Pierre Fabre, Jacques Perrin
Synopsis:
In 1954 Vietnam, at the time of Diên Biên Phu, a French unit on patrol under the command of an inexperienced lieutenant is gradually depleted by Vietminh until only an ex-Wehrmacht Alsatian adjutant remains. He is to die, a title informs us, in Algeria in 1960.
Review:
Semi-documentary in style, this is an effectively low-key appraisal of the difficult choices with which war confronts its soldiers. As so often in Vietnam films the enemy is only glimpsed from a distance, the camera remaining a disembodied observer among the group. Bertrand Tavernier acted as co-writer on the film. Schoendoerffer, apparently a participant in the events, went on to make a film of "Diên Biên Phu" itself.
(Sangre en Indochina)
Country: FR/SP
Technical: bw 100m
Director: Pierre Schoendoerffer
Cast: Bruno Cremer, Pierre Fabre, Jacques Perrin
Synopsis:
In 1954 Vietnam, at the time of Diên Biên Phu, a French unit on patrol under the command of an inexperienced lieutenant is gradually depleted by Vietminh until only an ex-Wehrmacht Alsatian adjutant remains. He is to die, a title informs us, in Algeria in 1960.
Review:
Semi-documentary in style, this is an effectively low-key appraisal of the difficult choices with which war confronts its soldiers. As so often in Vietnam films the enemy is only glimpsed from a distance, the camera remaining a disembodied observer among the group. Bertrand Tavernier acted as co-writer on the film. Schoendoerffer, apparently a participant in the events, went on to make a film of "Diên Biên Phu" itself.