The 17th Parallel

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MOVIE

The 17th Parallel

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.

Original Title

Le dix-septième parallèle, la guerre du peuple

Release Date

1968-03-05

Year

1968

Duration

1h 53m

Status

Released

Score

6.80

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