Dust of Life 1995
Dust of Life 1995
Poussières de vie (original title)
1h 27min | Drama | 18 January 1995 (France)
Storyline:
Based on a true story, after the US withdrawal and the fall of South Vietnam to the communist forces in 1975, many people are sent to reeducation camps. Several desperate boys in one of the camps begin planing their escape.
User review:
The Vietnam War was one of the major events of the twentieth century. The last image of it that people in the US saw was the helicopter fleeing the US embassy while people tried to board. But what happened in Vietnam afterwards was just as important. With the US gone, the North Vietnamese rounded up the children fathered by US troops and put them in reeducation camps. Rachid Bouchareb’s Academy Award-nominated “Poussières de vie” (“Dust of Life” in English) looks at some children in one such camp. The protagonists suffer all sorts of degradation in the camp and can only hope to escape.
This, as well as the Khmer Rouge’s killing fields, just go to show how much could’ve gotten avoided had the US not turned Indochina into a Cold War battlefield in the 1960s. I recommend the movie.
Director: Rachid Bouchareb
Writers: Duyen Anh (novel), Rachid Bouchareb
Stars: Daniel Guyant, Gilles Chitlaphone, Jehan Pagès
Country: France | Algeria | Belgium | Germany | Hong Kong
Language: French | Vietnamese
Release Date: 18 January 1995 (France)
Also Known As: Himmel ohne Sonne
Filming Locations: Selangor, Malaysia
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 4
File size : 1.21 GiB
Duration : 1 h 23 min
Overall bit rate : 2 070 kb/s
Links: iMDB
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“This, as well as the Khmer Rouge’s killing fields, just go to show how much could’ve gotten avoided had the US not turned Indochina into a Cold War battlefield in the 1960s.”
What an absurd, twisted statement. The movie depicts what happened when the people the US *opposed* prevailed. The US is no more responsible for communist Vietnam’s human rights abuses than the Allies are responsible for the mass murder of the Axis. Please stick to movie reviews and keep your ill-informed, morally confused views about international military affairs to yourself.