In this film made over ten years, filmmaker Barbara Sonneborn goes on a pilgrimage to the Vietnamese countryside where her husband was killed. She and translator (and fellow war widow) Xuan Ngoc Nguyen explore the meaning of war and loss on a human level. The film weaves interviews with Vietnamese and American widows into a vivid testament to the legacy of war.
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- Released
Keywords
- vietnam
- woman director
- war widow
- dead husband
- vietnamese woman
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Top Cast
Barbara Sonneborn as Self
Xuan Ngoc Nguyen as Self
Top Crew
Barbara Sonneborn · Director, Writer
Daniel Reeves · Cinematographer
Emiko Omori · Cinematographer
Lucy Massie Phenix · Editor
Ken Schneider · Editor
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