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Nga
Ba Dong Loc
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Luu
Trong Ninh
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| Kreuzung
Dong Loc Ten Girls of Dong Loc |
Vietnam
1997
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| Delphi-Filmpalast 14.02
11.00 CineStar 5 10.02 15.00 CineStar 5 16.02 15.00 |
| Produktion: Vietnam Feature Film Company
(Hanoi). Regie: Luu Trong Ninh. Buch: Nguyen Quang Vinh. Kamera: Nguyen Huu Tuan. Musik: Nguyen Quoc Trung. Ton: Dao Van Bien. Ausstattung: Vu Huy. Schnitt: Nguyen Vinh Quoc. Produzent: Nguyen Kim Cuong. Darsteller: Ngoc Dung, Thuy Huong, Van Anh, Kim Anh, Sao Kim, Thi Hue, Thi Canh, Thi Thuan, Ha Thanh, Thi Tham. Format: 35mm, 1:1.66, Farbe. Länge: 88 Minuten, 24 Bilder/Sek. Sprache: Vietnamesisch. Kontakt: Vietnam Feature Film Co., 4, Thuy Khue Street, Hanoi, Vietnam. Tel.: (84-4) 845 45 14, Fax: (84-4) 943 98 48. |
| „Ein besonderes Kapitel des Vietnam-Kriegs
rekonstruiert dieser Film: die aktive Mitwirkung von Frauen. Berühmt
wurden die Zehn Mädchen von Dong Loc. Sie waren Mitglieder einer
Jugendsturmeinheit, eines Kamikaze-Teams, das dafür verantwortlich
war, nicht explodierte Bomben von US-amerikanischen Flugzeugen detonieren
zu lassen. Regisseur Luu Trong Ninh schildert diese lebensgefährliche
Tätigkeit aus ihrem Alltag heraus, zeigt, wie sie miteinander
streiten, offen für einen gutaussehenden Kommandanten schwärmen
oder ein Fahrrad entwenden, um in den Feldern herumzuradeln.“
Sam Ho „Nga Ba Dong Loc ist ein ans Operettenhafte grenzendes Werk, das den Soldatinnen jener legendären Kreuzung ein filmisches Denkmal setzt. Die militärischen Glanzleistungen der jungen Frauen stehen in einem seltsamen Kontrast zu ihrem girliehaften Verhalten. Gewiß, es ist ein propagandistischer Film, und er hat als solcher besonders für ein westliches Publikum eine eigentümlich faszinierende Wirkung.“ Dorothee Wenner |
The Vietnam War is supposed to be the first
media war in history, but the most the media could tell was only half
of the story. In contemporary news coverage, the war was fought by
clueless GI‘s and tuned-in drop-outs. (...) TEN GIRLS OF DONG
LOC represents a small effort to tell the other half of the Vietnam
story. The women of the title are members of the Assault Youth Unit,
a kamikaze team responsible for discharging unexploded bombs dropped
by American airplanes. Their adventure is based on a true story and,
according to a title at the end of the film, the real ‘Girls
of Dong Loc’ were killed in action. But the film is not an attempt to right the wrong of their deaths or to rewrite their story so they get to undo their demise. (...) The film concerns itself with the women’s everyday routines as they perform the most extraordinary of duties. Always giggling, the assault youths go about their lives like they are in summer camp. They bond and fight with each other, openly flaunt their crushes on a handsome commander and steal a bicycle to frolic in the fields. (...) They also take math classes to prepare themselves for the peace to come. Meanwhile, the only math they know is the kind that goes: “22 bombs need to be cleared before 6 a.m.“ The courage and determination they show in doing their job in the few bomb-discharging scenes are gently inspiring and genuinely touching. When a series of bombs go off in a chain explosion, the way the dazed women emerge from the dusty aftermath and feel each other‘s presence is one of the most powerful expressions of humanity in a combat situation. This is the kind of movie Sam Fuller would have made if he were a woman and Vietnamese. Sam Ho, in: Catalogue of the International Film Festival Hong Kong, 1998 |
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Luu Trong Ninh was born in Hanoi in 1956. He graduated from the
Film Director Department of the Hanoi Cinema and Drama School. |