The 17th Parallel

The 17th Parallel

113 mins | Documentary, War | March 5, 1968

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.

The 17th Parallel

113 mins | Documentary, War | March 5, 1968

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.
IMDb rating 7.5
Producers
Original title Le dix-septième parallèle, la guerre du peuple
Directors Marceline Loridan-Ivens, Joris Ivens
Writers Marceline Loridan-Ivens, Joris Ivens

Cast