The Sound of the Violin in My Lai (1998)

Original title

Tiếng vĩ cầm ở Mỹ Lai

Directed by

Trần Văn Thủy

Genre

documentary film

Country

Vietnam

Runtime

32 min

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This short documentary revisits the My Lai massacre 30 years later. It follows two American soldiers who return to the site in Vietnam to confront the event.

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What happens

The Sound of the Violin in My Lai (Vietnamese: Tiếng vĩ cầm ở Mỹ Lai) is a short film that examines the history and legacy of the My Lai massacre, an incident of the Vietnam War in which hundreds of Vietnamese civilians were massacred by U.S. Army soldiers. The film investigates the effects of the massacre, with the story centering on the return of American soldiers Hugh Thompson and Larry Colburn to My Lai on the 30th anniversary of the event. The film was commissioned by the Vietnamese government. It garnered director Tran Van Thuy the Best Documentary Prize at the Asia Pacific Film Festival in year 2000. The violin referenced in the title is that of American Vietnam veteran and peace activist Roy Boehm. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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