Movie

The 17th Parallel (1968)

• March 5, 1968
• 1h 53m

• War
• Documentary

Overview

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.

Directors

Marceline Loridan-Ivens, Joris Ivens

Writers

Joris Ivens, Marceline Loridan-Ivens