Movie

The 17th Parallel

Le dix-septième parallèle, la guerre du peuple

On the border of North and South Vietnam, civilians live underground and cultivate their land in the dead of night, farmers take up arms, and bombs fall like clockwork. Joris Ivens and Marceline Loridan’s record of daily life in one of the most volatile regions of a war-torn, divided country is both a hazardous piece of first-hand journalism and a shattering work in its own right, simmering with barely repressed anger.

Director

Joris Ivens

Director

Marceline Loridan-Ivens

Screenplay

Joris Ivens

Screenplay

Marceline Loridan-Ivens

Status

Released

Release date

05/03/1968

Original language

French