Starting Place
Synopsis
In 1969, Robert Kramer went to Vietnam. From Hanoï, he hrought back a 40-minute b&w film called "the People's War". Twenty-three year later, he returns to Vietnam with his hand-held camera and a sharp-eyed curiosity to see, meet and make sense of a country now perched between its Communist legacy and the attractions of a market economy. His first conversation is with the man who was his guide in 1969. There's talk of translating books (John Reed, Cervantes !) and the preference for forceful literature ("Ten Days That Shook the World", "Don Quixote"). Henceforth, the film progesses in a continual search at its marks, constantly shifting them, indulging its fascination with the daily world it records in striking images, outside any fixed framework. The film is a visual score, like the blues. It mixes past and present, explores memories, evokes hopes.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (3)
Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producer : Les Films d'Ici
- Co-production : La Sept Cinéma
- Foreign production company : Channel Four Television
- Film exports/foreign sales : Lagardère Studios
- French distribution : Ciné Classic
Full credits (7)
- Executive Producers : Ruben Korenfeld, Richard Copans
- Screenwriter : Robert Kramer
- Director of Photography : Nguyen Thuoc
- Editors : Christine Benoît, Robert Kramer, Marie-Hélène Mora
- Sound Recordist : Olivier Schwob
- Production manager : Valérie Lozouet
- Press Attaché (film) : Matilde Incerti
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Documentary
- Themes : History, Conflict
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : Great Britain, France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (Great Britain, France)
- Production year : 1994
- French release : 09/03/1994
- Runtime : 1 h 30 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 82.580
- Visa issue date : 21/02/1994
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
