Dien Bien Phu (film)

Din Bin Phu French for in Bin Ph is a 1992 film written and directed by French veteran Pierre Schoendoerffer. With its huge budget, allstar cast, and realistic war scenes produced with the cooperation of the French and Vietnamese armies, Den Ben Phu is regarded by many as one of the more important war movies produced in French filmmaking history. It portrays the 55day siege of Dien Bien Phu 1954, the last battle by the French Unions colonial army in the First Indochina War during the final days of French Indochina, which was soon after divided into North and South Vietnam. This was a prelude to the Second Indochina War, known in the United States as the Vietnam War.

The movie follows the chronological events of the battle. Some of them are shown in situ, from the heart of the battle, at Dien Bien Phu, while others are reported by civilians at Hanoi city or by paratroopers at Hanois civilian airport.The Hanoi action is mostly focused on Britishborn American writerreporter Howard Simpson Donald Pleasence. Simpsons sources of confidential information include French Union military men Patrick Catalifo, Eric Do, an Agence France Presse correspondent JeanFranois Balmer, an influential Vietnamese nationalist Long NguyenKhac, a Chinese contrabander Th Anh and a Eurasian opium dealer Mat Nahyr. Simpson sends scoopworthy news to the San Francisco Chronicle daily newspaper, through a Hong Kongbased agency, in order to elude French military censorship that existed at the time in Hanoi and the rest of Indochina. ........

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