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23-05-11 02:59 PM #1Senior Member Country:
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i'm halfway through Bernard B. Fall's "Hell In A Very Small Place", a very detailed account of the Seige of Dien Bien Phu. Does anyone know if there were any films made about it, or using it as a backdrop ? I'm imagining that they would be French, but I have no idea. Anyone ?
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23-05-11 04:07 PM #2Senior Member Country:
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23-05-11 05:05 PM #3Senior Member Country:
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As well as those mentioned in the link supplied by the good Captain, the opening section of Lost Command (1966) - IMDb is set during the final hours of Dien Bien Phu
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23-05-11 05:22 PM #4Senior Member
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Hi Billy
There's a fine french film, about a group of soldiers retiring in the jungle, just before the redition of Diên Biên Phu: La 317e Section / P.Schoendoerffer (1965)La 317e section: Amazon.fr: Jacques Perrin, Bruno Cremer, Pierre Schoendoerffer: DVD
I don't know if a dvd exists with english subtitles ...
Jacques Perrin who will later be in Les Demoiselles de Rochefort or Cinéma Paradisio and the producer of Microcosmos ...
...and a young Bruno Cremer ( Maigret, La Chair de L'Orchidée, La Bande à Bonnot, Sous le Sable...)
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23-05-11 07:42 PM #5Senior Member Country:
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Jump Into Hell - 1955, pretty good film and US made with imported French and International stars. I have a copy on DVD
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24-05-11 12:45 PM #6Senior Member Country:
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Many thanks to you all. There are more than I imagined.
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25-05-11 09:36 AM #7Senior Member
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There's another one directed by Pierre Schoendoerffer in 1992:
Diên Biên Phú (1992) - IMDb
with the two greats Donald Pleasence and Jean-François Balmer...
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30-05-11 09:56 PM #8Senior Member Country:
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Dam, must track down that one!
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31-05-11 07:40 AM #9Senior Member
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31-05-11 05:21 PM #10Senior Member Country:
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Thanks, will deffo pick that up
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02-06-11 11:05 PM #11Member Country:
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And if you want to follow up how Dien Bien Phu may have affected the French Military (Lost Command etc) Pontecorvo's Battle of Algiers is spellbinding.
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03-06-11 04:19 AM #12Senior Member Country:
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Nothing substantive here, just an ad hoc comment that "flicks" seems a bit too breezy a connotation for the subject matter!
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