Film Screening “Cong Binh, the Lost Fighters of Vietnam”
05, 11, 12, 19 and 26 Jun 2016
L’Espace
From L’Espace:
Come to film screening of “Cong Binh, the Lost Fighters of Vietnam” at L’Espace.
Director: Lam Lê (France, 116”)
Casting: Vietnamese and French witnesses
The forgotten history of 20,000 young Vietnamese who were forced to work in France on the eve of the second World War and under the German Occupation.
Film synopsis:
On the eve of World War II, 20,000 Vietnamese men in French Indochina were forced into labor in arms factories to replace French workers who’d left for the front. Mistaken for soldiers, blocked in France after the 1940 defeat, at the mercy of the German occupying forces and collaborationist bosses, these civil workers known as “Cong Binh” led a parias’ life during the Occupation. They were rice cultivation pioneers in the Camarque and unjustly thought of as traitors in Vietnam, although they all supported Ho Chi Minh in the country’s independence in 1945.
Twenty survivors, five of whom died while the film was being edited, in Vietnam and France talk about their experiences. They recount the here and now of colonialism and give accounts of the opprobrium they, and even their children, encountered.
A moment from the history between France and Vietnam that has shamefully been erased from the collective memory.
Schedule
Sun 05 Jun: 8 pm
Sat 11 Jun: 3 pm, 5.30 pm (with English subtitles), 8 pm
Sun 12 Jun: 8.30 pm
Sun 19 Jun: 8 pm
Sun 26 Jun: 8 pm
Language: In English with Vietnamese subtitles
Tickets
Ticket price: 50,000 VND
Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 40,000 VND
Tickets are available at L’Espace.
Watch the film’s trailer here:
[youtube width=”700″ height=”393″]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgdRuB3lMOY[/youtube]
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