When French writer Marguerite Duras (1914-96) published her novel The Sea Wall in 1950, she came very close to winning the prestigious Prix Goncourt. Meanwhile, in Indochina, France was suffering its first military defeats in its war against the Việt Minh, the rebel movement for independence.
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Les Batelières Productions, ARTE, TV5 Monde
Keywords
- based on novel or book
- racism
- forced prostitution
- woman director
- french colonialism
- 1950s
- white supremacy
- portrait of an artist
- indochina war
- french writer
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Top Cast
Romane Bohringer as Self - Reader
Ann Laura Stoler as Self- Anthropologist
Françoise Vergès as Self - Politologist
Alain Ruscio as Self - Historian
Boulomsouk Svadphaiphane as Self - Writer
Marguerite Duras as Self - Writer (archive footage)
Top Crew
Nathalie Masduraud · Director
Valérie Urrea · Director
Baptiste Charvet · Composer
Philippe Guilbert · Cinematographer
Svetlana Vaynblat · Editor
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