French troops back in Vietnam - for a film

Chicago Sun-Times | April 18, 1991| | Copyright

HANOI French troops are again dug in on the plains of northern Vietnam, where defeat at the battle of Dienbienphu in 1954 brought an end to their country's rule of Indochina.

Vietnamese regular soldiers in French uniforms are preparing for a huge parachute drop alongside paratroopers from two of France's best airborne regiments.

The French tricolor has flown again over government buildings in Hanoi, and the colonial elite are spending evenings at the theater.

Thirty-seven years after he served at Dienbienphu, French director Pierre Schoendoerffer has returned to Vietnam to pay homage to ...

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