Diên Biên Phu
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Production year1992
French release04/03/1992
Runtime2 h 28 min
Synopsis
The Indochina war started in 1945 in total ignorance. Initially conducted in a clandestine way, it carried on ambiguously and was perpetuated as much because of inertia as out of honor. In France, there was no real desire to win, and in Indochina, no real means to do so. "The dirty war," as some used to call it, ended in 1954 at Diên Biên Phû. What was Diên Biên Phû all about? A battle that France lost (I have no masochistic taste for really juicy defeats). But it also represents something else. Diên Biên Phû is a moment in the history of the France of the high seas, the end of an era, a page forever turned. For us, it is a last farewell, one from France to Indochina? Up there, in a faraway valley, everything was lost, except honor.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (22)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producers : Flach Film, Mod Films
- Co-productions : France 2 Cinéma, Productions Marcel Dassault
- Film exports/foreign sales : Tamasa Distribution
- French distributors : Pathé Films, AMLF
Full credits (19)
- Executive Producers : Jacques Kirsner, Pierre Schoendoerffer
- Screenwriter : Pierre Schoendoerffer
- Director of Photography : Bernard Lutic
- Music Composer : Georges Delerue
- Assistant directors : Philippe Rostan, Frédéric Schoendoerffer
- Editor : Armand Psenny
- Sound Recordist : Michel Laurent
- Costume designer : Olga Pelletier
- Voice : Espérance Pham Thái Lan
- Sound assistant : Murielle Damain
- Assistant Operators : Dominique Delguste, Alain Ducousset
- Camera operator : Sabine Lancelin
- Production Manager : Patrick Delauneux
- Press Attaché (film) : Eva Simonet
- Production Designer : Raoul Albert
- Sound Mixer : William Flageollet
- Narrator : Pierre Schoendoerffer
- Still Photographer : Patrick Chauvel
- Location Manager : Yves Dutheil
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : War
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
