The 17th Parallel

Le dix-septième parallèle, la guerre du peuple

Also known as Le Dix-septieme parallele, Le 17e parallèle: La guerre du peuple, The Seventeenth Parallel, Den 17. breddegrad, A 17. szélességi fok

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.