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Le Petit Vietnam (2007)

Le Petit Vietnam poster
Directed by
Philippe Rostan
Genre
documentary film
Country
France, Switzerland
Runtime
1h 07m
Elsewhere
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How it feels

A documentary about a former French mining town that took in Vietnamese refugees in the 1950s. It shows how the small community became a mixed Franco-Vietnamese village, focusing on daily life and integration.

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What happens

Le Petit Vietnam est un documentaire franco-suisse réalisé par Philippe Rostan, sorti en 2007. Noyant-d'Allier, une cité minière vouée à l'abandon, a vu l'arrivée des rapatriés d'Indochine en 1955 la transformer en un village métissé mi-français mi-vietnamien connu dans la région comme le lieu d'une intégration réussie d'une communauté asiatique au cœur de la France profonde... Une preuve que 'vivre ensemble', au fin fond de l'Allier, n'est pas impossible. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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