Regie:
Pierre SchoendoerfferScenario:
Pierre SchoendoerfferCamera:
Raoul CoutardMuziek:
Pierre JansenSamenvattingen(1)
In 1954 Vietnam, a young lieutenant and a World War II veteran lead a retreating French platoon and find Viet Minh soldiers hot on their trail. (Netflix)
Recensie (2)
The best thing about The 317th Platoon is the fact that it is essentially shot as a pseudo-documentary. This fact gives it an unpleasant vividness and rawness, manifesting in a way that you truly feel nothing is staged. There are scenes that can pull you in, and you fear you might catch a bullet too.
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After the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu, a platoon of soldiers find themselves on the retreat in the inhospitable jungle of the Vietnamese, Cambodian and Laotian borderlands, while Vietnamese troops getting dangerously hot on their heels. A well-written and very uncomfortable war drama underscoring the French trauma of the Indochina War with a classic battle of ideas between a naive young soldier (Jacques Perrin) and a seasoned cynical veteran played by the always brilliant Bruno Cremer.
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