![]() ![]() The Indochina War seems to symbolize an eternal return of the outcast, never totally absent, never really present. ![]() If the allusions have therefore been constant for more than half a century, the subject remains as marginal as the majority of the characters who embody it. Since 1945, about 50 films have clearly mentioned it in their narratives, even if these evocations can occur in a more or less furtive way. However, the Indochina War is not absent from screens. In comparison, the Indochina War in French movies has in 2019, a total corpus of only 10 war movies, including 5 movies by veteran filmmakers Pierre Schoendoerffer ( La 317e Section in 1965, Diên Biên Phu in 1992) and Claude Bernard-Aubert ( Patrouille sans espoir in 1957, Le Facteur s’en va-t-en guerre in 1966 and Charlie Bravo in 1980). By way of comparison, the French corpus on the Algerian War is estimated by Benjamin Stora, Guy Hennebelle and Mouny Berrah in La Guerre d'Algérie à l'écran (1997) to include more than 50 war movies, while the American corpus on the Vietnam War was estimated to comprise more than 500 war movies in 2000 by Linda Dittmar and Gene Michaud ( From Hanoi to Hollywood). Everyone saw pictures of this Second Vietnam War, every French family knows about the Algerian War, whereas the history of the Indochina War (like the Korean War, 1950-1953) is “crushed” and forgotten under the layers of the memories of these other conflicts.Įach of these two conflicts (Algeria War and Vietnam War) contributed to pushing back the Indochina War to the confines of national historical consciousness. Another reason is the territory concerned by the conflict since, in the same peninsula, just a few years later (officially), the Second Vietnam War (also known as the American Vietnam War) took place with another media strike force (beginning of television broadcasting) and in the name of containment and no longer European imperialism. EUROPEAN WAR MOVIES PROFESSIONALThe Algerian War and its conscripts directly involved all French families, contrary to the Indochina War and its professional army, lost far away from homeland. One of the main reasons for this oblivion is that the battles were fought only by a force of the French Army called “le Corps Expéditionnaire Français d’Extrême-Orient” (CEFEO), and not by the contingent (unlike the Algerian or the American Vietnam Wars). Chronologically caught between the Second World War (1939-1945) and the Algerian War (1954-1962), the French Vietnam War (1945-1954, also known as the First Vietnam War or the Indochina War) is one of the most unknown conflicts of the 20th century. ![]()
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