The 17th Parallel
7.5
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.
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Joris Ivens Director · Marceline Loridan-Ivens Director
United States release September 26, 1968 · Produced in France · Languages French, Vietnamese
Production
Argos films
Production
Capi Films
Production
France
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Languages
Original title
Le dix-septième parallèle, la guerre du peuple
Original language
French
Spoken on screen
French · Vietnamese
Release dates
France · March 5, 1968
Theatrical
United States · September 26, 1968
Theatrical
Belgium
July 12, 1968 · TV premiere
Czechia
April 17, 2002 · One World Film Festival
Germany
May 11, 1969 · TV premiere
Greece
March 18, 2010 · Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
Portugal
April 23, 1983 · Cinemateca Portuguesa
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