Loin du Vietnam (1967)
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Directors
Joris Ivens, William Klein, Claude Lelouch, Agnès Varda, Jean-Luc Godard, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais
Cast
Anne Bellec, Karen Blanguernon, Bernard Fresson, Maurice Garrel, Valérie Mayoux, Marie-France Mignal, Jean-Luc Godard, Fidel Castro, Chi Minh Ho
A collective film project combines documentary and fiction to oppose U.S. intervention in the Vietnam conflict.
The story
In eleven sequences, a collective of filmmakers and film technicians presents a work of opposition to the United States’ intervention in the Vietnam conflict. Moving between documentary and fiction, the film frames the war as a conflict in which the rich wage war against the poor, extending that argument to the revolutionary Third World and peoples seeking independence. Its political perspective is encapsulated by a slogan chanted at a demonstration in New York: “The rich get richer, the poor get killed.”
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Far from Vietnam expresses, in eleven sequences, a collective of filmmakers’ and film technicians’ opposition to the United States’ intervention in the Vietnam conflict. Alternating between documentary and fiction, the film has only one aim: to show that the Vietnam War is a war waged by the rich against the poor—in other words, against the entire revolutionary Third World, or even the Third World seeking independence—following the slogan chanted during the demonstration in New York: “The rich get richer, the poor get killed.”
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