Bravo-6 "un Mauvais Pressentiment"...

[kinggeorges]

agreed mirosoft

 

[Zastrow.cuirassier]

Hi MIROFSOFT, you right, it is perhaps the best movie made on this period.
The director was Pierre Schœndœrffer.
He was in DBP as reporter for the French Army and was also made prisonner by the Viet Minh.
He lost all he had filmed during the battle, and nobody know where are the fims.
He also made other film about French Army:
Le Crabe-Tambour (quite good as the 317° section)
L'honneur d'un Capitaine (about french war in Algeria-highly recommended)
Dien bien Phu (not a real good film)

View of the making of DBP, Pierre Schoendoerffer is the civil man in the center.
If you want sample of this film :


Pierre Schoendoerffer also make a really good documentary about American Vietnam War
The anderson Platoon,
Documentary where Schoendoerffer follow a section of the 1st Cavalry in 1966
If you want to see this documentary :

Highly recommended !

 

[Mirofsoft]

Yes

I have seen all those movies, not because they are war movies, but because they are good movies
with excellent actors like Perrin and Cremer in 317éme...
Dufhillo, Rochefort, Rich in Crabe Tambour
Perrin and G Wilson in Honneur ...
and as you said : Dien Bien... is not in the same level of quality

 

[Zastrow.cuirassier]

All you wrote MIROFSOFT is right.
The only thing to remember from Pierre Schoendoerffer is that is was a great writer and director.