VIDEO RECORD
317分队
The 317th Platoon / 317分队
In 1954 Vietnam,at the time of Diên Biên Phu,a French unit on patrol under the command of an inexperienced lieutenant is gradually depleted by Vietminh until only an ex-Wehrmacht Alsatian adjutant remains.He is to die,a title informs us,in Algeria in 1960.Semi-documentary in style,this is an effectively low-key appraisal of the difficult choices with which war confronts its soldiers.As so often in Vietnam films the enemy is only glimpsed from a distance,the camera remaining a disembodied observer among the group.Bertrand Tavernier acted as co-writer on the film.
