Công Binh, the Lost Fighters of Vietnam
Synopsis
On the eve of World War II, 20,000 Vietnamese men in French Indochina were forced into labor in arms factories to replace French workers who'd left for the front. Mistaken for soldiers, blocked in France after the 1940 defeat, at the mercy of the German occupying forces and collaborationist bosses, these civil workers known as "Cong Binh" led a parias' life during the Occupation. They were rice cultivation pioneers in the Camarque and unjustly thought of as traitors in Vietnam, although they all supported Ho Chi Minh in the country's independence in 1945.
Twenty survivors, five of whom died while the film was being edited, in Vietnam and France talk about their experiences. They recount the here and now of colonialism and give accounts of the opprobrium they, and even their children, encountered.
A moment from the history between France and Vietnam that has shamefully been erased from the collective memory.
Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (2)
- Executive Producer : ADR Productions
- French distribution : ADR Productions
Full credits (11)
- Executive Producer : Pascal Verroust
- Screenwriters : Lam Lê, Pierre Daum
- Directors of Photography : Lam Lê, Hoang Duc Ngo Tich
- Music Composer : Lê Cat Trong Ly
- Assistant director : Agnès Fanget
- Editor : Lam Lê
- Sound Recordist : Mathieu Descamps
- Line Producers : Pascal Verroust, Lam Lê
- Press Attaché (film) : Michaël Morlon
- Sound Editor : Julien Ngo-Trong
- Sound Mixer : Philippe Grivel
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Documentary
- Production language : Vietnamese, French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2012
- French release : 30/01/2013
- Runtime : 1 h 56 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 128.501
- Approval : Yes
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Digital 5.1
