Pierre Schoendoerffer was a war photographer in what was known as Indochina in the early 1950s, and was a prisoner of war at Dien Bien Phu. The experience was, it can be inferred, a defining one for ...
France’s hubris keeps warning us, and so does international cinema. Military brass and George W. Bush administration muckety-mucks famously set aside hours in the early 2000s to screen Gillo ...
French soldiers retreat through the jungles of Vietnam following the disastrous Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954. Pierre Schoendoerffer, who wrote and directed this 1965 screen adaptation of his own ...
Pierre Schoendoerffer had been a POW in Vietnam following the French defeat at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu; less than 10 years after that battle, which took place in the waning days of the French war ...
France's hubris keeps warning us, and so does international cinema. Military brass and George W. Bush administration muckety-mucks famously set aside hours in the early 2000s to screen Gillo ...
In 1954, the Indochina War begins to come to a close following France's defeat by the Viet Minh at the deadly Battle of Dîen Bîen Phû. French forces are in full retreat and risk being overrun at every ...
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