The Bamboo Incident or Hoa-Binh ( vi, Hòa Bình, zh, 和平) is a 1970 French film directed by Raoul Coutard and based on a novel ''La colonne de cendres'' by Françoise Lorrain.

Plot

Two small Vietnamese boy grow up during the horrors and hardships of the Vietnam War era. Their father with the Vietcong and their mother in the hospital, two Vietnamese children try to survive on the streets of

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Production

Filming took place about 1969 in

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Crew

* Production companies : Madeleine Films, Parc Film, Les Productions de la Guéville, C.A.P.A.C., Thiên Nga Films * Production manager : Jacques Garcia * Assistant director : Pierre Roubaud, Nguyễn Văn Nhân * Sound mixer : Michel Laurent * Composer :

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(''Fire night''),

Michel Portal Michel Portal (born 27 November 1935) is a French composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist. He plays both jazz and classical music and is considered to be "one of the architects of modern European jazz". Early life Portal was born in Bayonne on ...

(''Le rideau rouge'') * Script supervisor : Monique Herran

Cast

Lê Quỳnh Le is a romanization of several rare East Asian surnames and a common Vietnamese surname. It is a fairly common surname in the United States, ranked 975th during the 1990 census and 368th during the 2000 census. In 2000, it was the eighth-most-co ...

as Nam - Papa (secret name Trí) * Xuân Hà as Cao Thị Thu - Mama *

Michel Laurent Michel Laurent (born 10 August 1953) is a French former professional road racing cyclist. Major results ;1975 :GP de la Liberté Fribourg ;1976 :Commentry :Paris–Nice :Promotion Pernod :Tour de Corse :Vernon ;1977 :Le Creusot :Chateau-Chinon ...

as Hùng - Son * Huỳnh Cazenas as Xuân - Hùng's younger sister * Marcel Lan Phương as Mrs. Năm - A cousin * Bùi Thị Thanh as Trần Thị Hà - Xuân's foster mother * Kiều Hạnh as Mrs. Ngoan - Vietnamese nurse *

Danièle Delorme Gabrielle Danièle Marguerite Andrée Girard (9 October 1926 – 17 October 2015), known by her stage name Danièle Delorme, was a French actress and film producer, famous for her roles in films directed by Marc Allégret, Julien Duvivier or Y ...

as French nurse * Phi Lân as VNACC commander * Trần Văn Lịch as Vietcong political commissioner * Anh Tuấn as Vietcong secret officer * Võ Đình Phương as

Bụi đời The Vietnamese term bụi đời ("life of dust" or "dusty life") refers to vagrants in the city or, ''trẻ bụi đời'' to street children or juvenile gangs. From 1989, following a song in the musical ''Miss Saigon'', "Bui-Doi" came to popular ...

's male tycoon * Minh Ngọc as

's female tycoon * Raoul Coutard as Angry French man

Reception

The film was nominated for the

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. It was also entered into the

1970 Cannes Film Festival The 23rd Cannes Film Festival ran from 3 to 18 May 1970. This year, Robert Favre LeBret, the founder of the festival, decided not to include any films from Russia and Japan (their flags were missing on the Croisette). He was tired of the "Slavi ...

, where Coutard won the prize for Best First Work.

References

External links

* 1970 films 1970s French-language films Warner Bros. films French drama films Vietnamese drama films Vietnam War films Films directed by Raoul Coutard Films based on books 1970s French films Films scored by Michel Portal {{1970s-France-film-stub