DIEN BIEN PHU unofficial HD trailer VF (1992) This movie has no trailer, so i made one Edit & sound design : Leo Lor A Pierre Schoendoerffer film (1992) Music : Le Concerto De L'Adieu - Georges Delerue
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Hey. May I please where you got Jean De Lattre's speech without additional sounds? I need it for a project about the first Indochina war and I have been looking for it everywhere to no avail thanks
@@daevld @daevld you can hear a part of it in this radio show around 19:10 www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/indochine-1945-1954-chronique-d-une-guerre-oubliee/vinh-yen-janvier-1951-l-annee-de-lattre-6722381
"Look, these guys are gonna be wasted. Bread for ducks, and they ALL know it yet they all willing to be wasted one last time, they line up at the door" this hit hard : (
@@vietc0ng891 Sorry if you misunderstood but i am not choosing a side or giving a judgement. I am just saying that those words hit hard nothing less nothing more. And wathever side your are the courage to fight should still be respected.
@@stevenhanssen4721 i cant agree man. We can just pity the french that thought they were fighting for something good. There's nothing respectful about french imperialism over vietnam.
Even though the loss of the entire French force at Dien Bien Phu was a significant blow to the French in terms of manpower depletion, the numbers lost constituted only about 10% of the entire French Union force in Indochina. What was irreplaceable however, was the loss of the French airborne battalions. Both Legion parachute battalions and nearly all the Colonial parachute battalions were completely destroyed at Dien Bien Phu. The parachute battalions were the fire brigade for the French, top tier troops continually inserted into desperate situations to blunt Viet Minh breakthroughs. Having lost this highly capable airborne reserve, the French knew it was over...
@@SIDisTHE No, they were French, but a considerable amount of them would have had prior combat experience anyway as during the Second World War they would have been part of the Free French Forces. You are most likely referring to the ‘myth’ of ex-Nazi German servicemen in the French Foreign Legion, which is usually a tad bit exaggerated as the only widely-known account of it, “Devil’s Guard” by George Robert Elford, is fiction and should not be trusted as a reliable source. After 1949, the French Army and the Legion in particular generally did not accept former servicemen of the German Wehrmacht, Schutzstaffel, etc. into their ranks. A particular exception, however, was the Bataillon d'Infanterie légère d'Outre-Mer or BILOM, which was made up of Second World War-era prisoners-of-war / POWs (which would have mostly consisted of ex-Nazi German servicemen) from Free French camps. Even then, this unit was disbanded in 1949, and did not partake in the Battle of Diên Biên Phu. This is not to say that there weren’t ex-Nazi German servicemen employed on the French side past 1949, though, as there definitely are accounts - however sparse they may be - of that occurring. This is represented in the 1992 film by a French soldier (presumably a Legionnaire) who curses in German and who appears briefly to gripe about the fall of strongpoint Gabrielle to Lieutenant Ky of the 5e BPVN. Edit: Clarified context.
I finally got to watch this film and it's extremely powerful and moving. The director was a veteran of the battle himself and was there as a corporal-cameraman shooting film. The character of the cameraman in the film is semi-autobiographical in nature, even. I imagine that is why the Viet Minh do not make much appearance--he likely did not see many himself until it was all over. It is a docudrama focused on the view of the war from the French soldiers and from those in Hanoi, watching the battle from afar.
I think both the Viet Minh and the French paras are deserving of deep respect. The Viet Minh, led by the Red Napoleon, Vo Nguyen Giap, would gleefully throw their lives away for independence. The legionnaires and the paras would jump into that cursed hilltop, in the jaws of certain death and defeat. Both are warriors of honour.
Not just the regiments de parachutiste legion etrangere did incredible things there. The colonial battalions, the commando groups tying up the VM supplies but then got left to starve and go mad after the peace accords. There was bravery you’ll never see again in that battle. Nurses and prostitutes who refused to leave, a female doctor who bought her own helicopter and went into fire to get wounded, dragged them in, landed somewhere safe and started treating them. units of tiny Laotians and viets who’d never parachuted dropping in at night knowing that they were going to die. And the viet Minh were incredibly brave, and contrary to popular opinion, the real hardcore troops, particularly the 308regt, did what they could for the wounded and then took whatever weapons and radios they could and kept fighting, it was the commissars who did the horrible things to the wounded and captured. If you haven’t read street without joy and hell in a very small place by Bernard B Fall, they are incredible and well written.
Same French director (Pierre Schoendoerfer) made the classic French Indochina war flick ‘La 317eme Section’ in the mid-1960’s. Absolutely awesome flick about a small French paratrooper unit clawing their way through northern Indochina to link up with the army fighting in Dien Bien Phu. Filmed in Cambodia (another former French colony) in 1965, this early Vietnam war flick is a must see if you want to complete your knowledge of Vietnam war cinematography. The movie is even more realistic in that the ending is not a happy one for the French paratroopers.
Great in that movie was Bruno Jean Marie Cremer (6 October 1929 - 7 August 2010) a French actor best known for portraying Jules Maigret on French television, from 1991 to 2005.
@@matthewdoncel9705 If you want to have more insight into what happened over there, a book called "Street Without Joy" is really helpful and a good read. I read it before spending a year over there in 66- 67.
For me, "Apocalypse now(1979),"The Platoon(1986)","Full Metal Jacket(1987)","Hamburger Hill(1987)" and "Dien Bien Phu(1992)" form the grandiose pentalogy of war in Vietnam in which "Dien Bien Phu" is a prequel. Historically, "Dien Bien Phu" depicts the Indochina war and the other depict the vietnam war which is like sequel to the indochina war.
Fun fact- retired legionnaires re enlisted when they found out the situation on the ground, most of them were not parachutist but insisted anyway to save their brothers in arms.
Many were not legionnaires, just regular army, and they volunteered, by the hundreds, to jump on Dien Bien Phu, without any paratrooper experience. This was the case with my grandfather. Wounded twice, 4 months in a camp, he weighed 42 kg when he was released.
@Dean - “most”?? No. I’m 1/2 French and have lived in France and went to school there. Most of the Legionnaires were French. True that there were many former German WW2 vets fighting for France but most were native French either looking for adventure or felt a patriotic duty to fight for France and her colonies.
My father whom i have no memory of is listed MIA with the French forces during the Indochina war. For some mysterious reason I felt I had to go not knowing then the fate of my dad, to serve in the Vietnam war where I did two years with the US Navy Seabees throughout the I Corps. That one was for you mon pêre/dad.
Thank you for both your father’s and your service. Must have been tough in I Corps, so close to the DMZ. If you don’t mind me asking, what unit did your father serve with?
My father fought at the battle Sergeant 5 BPVN. Parachuted on 14 March and fought until 8 May. Taken prisoner, but due to wounds and a great deal of luck, was freed on 29 May. 11,000 French troops were captured, and only 3,300 survived imprisonment. It is hardly ever mentioned or discussed. I travelled to DIEN BIEN PHU, and I was surprised to find that trenches remain. Tragic that you have no memories of your father and a reminder that war is a pointless human tragedy.
PIERRE SHOENDOERFER realisateur de talent et inspire qui a vaicu cette bataille de l'intérieur puisqu'il faisait partit des journalistes de l'armée, qui couvraient en risquant bien sur leurs vies, ce conflit maintenant oublié!!! Il dira plus tard "mon arme c'etait ma caméra!!" Tout un symbole!! Respect a cet homme magnifique et tellement inspirant!!! Et a tout ces jeunes hommes, de chaque camps, tombes au champs d'honneur, qui comme le dit HELIE DE NOIX DE SAINT MARC: "ne connaitront jamais plus de matin d'automne"
Many legionnaires signed new contracts even knowing it was a death sentence to jump over Dien Bien Phu to try to help their frères d'armes... They all volunteered. Breaks my heart... Our fathers had true grit!
Right to the end when the camp was almost overrun soldiers were volunteering to jump in even though they knew they were unlikely to survive. Some of those volunteers were not trained paras and many of them were due to return to France very soon afterwards. Incredible courage and loyalty to their comrades.
since the revolution france has ever been emotionalist like this, wasting valuable assets in the name of heroism, there's a reason why they've become a second or third rate power
Outstanding trailer I found a free streaming of this movie online and watched it Friday Night after seeing this Outstanding trailer. Im the son of a Canadian USMC Vietnam veteran who served two tours 67-69 and I can honestly say this movie visually and the sound was just unbelievable to watch .
Excellent film, no doubt about it. Of course it’s difficult to recreate a battle that encompasses tens of thousands of soldiers, but this is a good film. Also, many battles at DBP were fought at night, thus creating another hurdle for the Director. However, it’s a very epic work of cinematography.
@@hochigaming14yearsago90 That other guy probably got upset when the movie "Titanic" came out and before he saw it, someone told him the ship sinks. "DAMN IT, you're ruined the movie for me!"
I’m glad it looks like they’re actually focusing on the tragedy and pointlessness of the war, even if it is only for the sake of the soldiers and not the monstrous actions the French took to keep ahold of their dying empire
@@davynhainstock7503 I meant it was pointless for the French to try to fight to keep their colonial holdings. The Vietnamese were very much justified in their war
@@davynhainstock7503 you’d think they would’ve been a little more empathetic after themselves being occupied instead of just stealing the nazi’s suppression methods
Honneur et gloire à la mémoire des Vietnamiens, Cambodgiens, Laotiens et Montagnards qui sont mort pour leur patrie, la France. Nous nous souvenons de vous. Honor and glory to the memory of the Vietnamese, Cambodians, Laotians, and Montagnard peoples who died for their country, France. We still remember you.
@@GGdeTOURS37 You clearly live in idealistic delusion. Those people couldn’t care less about france; they had no real choice. They were either drafted or were in it for a paycheck.
@@kingdedede9135you know nothing about those peoples, about the umongs. Their tribes have been tracked and killed in mass by vietminh. Thousands of them have flee to france as boat People after the mess of saïgon.
I'm sry about your one grandfather but other is hero because he was fight his own contry to protect freedom of vietnamese, sadly France soldier tricked by goverment And they were fight for greed and crime of France goverment but they didn't know it.
I was born in Vietnam. Had family on both sides republican and communist. If it started as a colonial war it quickly became a civil war. Foreigners just happened to be bookends in it.
The issue with Dien Bien Phu is that a first class western army got his ass kicked by a supposedly inferior culturally,mentally etc etc people in a proper,set piece battle of the kind they had been up to that moment invincible for several centuries.
@@brownvoltaire2722 No,not really. The westerners considered their japanese as almost equals. They were "the prussians of the east". The vietnamese were much lower in the hierarchy,plus the russians weren't considered "true"westerners. They still aren't by the way... PS to add to the debacle the battleground at Dien Bien Phu was chosen by the french.A home defeat,if there ever was one.
except Vietnam had never exhibited their inferiority in the battle. They just lacked reliable weapon, which were quickly satisfied with Soviet weapons. so reliable will the Soviet weapons prove that the French, American and even the Chinese were taken aback.
At Dien Bien Phu after combat all the French strategies collapse, the landing strip is under direct fire from the Vietnamese guns, barring a miracle the battle is already lost. Quickly no more planes can land reinforcements and supplies can only do parachuting, the pilots take all the risks to help their comrades on the ground. they know the entrenched camp can't hold on to a drip. the French General Staff sends all the reinforcements available on board the planes still in flying condition, they know that these men risk being sacrificed for nothing. in Hanoi, a call for volunteers is launched, candidates are jostling, many of whom have never fought or parachuted. Yet these men know that the battle is already lost and that they are going to land in hell. and certainly die there. But we're not really going there for France and even less for Indochina, we're going there for honor for our brothers in arms, for friends. the last words of officer Eliane 4 'the Viets are there I destroy my radio set. For the parachutists and the hip hip legion Hooray'
My late grandmother knew an officer who had bamboo dug under his fingernails and toenails during the long capture march after the battle. Love and great respect to his men of honor.
At the end of the movie, you see a French military cameraman stripping and exposing combat film from his camera. It was director Schoendorfer who was that cameraman. He kept one spool of film, which is the only actual film we have from the end of the battle. When North Vietnam made their own, staged, movie about the battle, they incorporated Schoendorfer's film. Schoendorfer had to endure the subsequent death march of the French prisoners, and returned to France after the peace treaty to become an acclaimed film director. His classic 317th Platoon is a better film about the French Indochina war.
war is a terrible thing, but most anti-war movies and games end up having the opposite effect on the audience, driving most to want to fight a war instead of vouching to avoid it, specially if it is so well made that it touches your inner caveman deep within your soul
if the strategy was to draw the enemy to Dien Bien Phu then the French succeeded. Unfortunately, the unexpected arrival of enemy artillery dragged through the jungle eventually closed the air bases and created a true siege. Days before the fortress fell the French took hundred of prisoners who surrender thinking that the French had won.
La seule chose qui n'est pas vraiment représenté dans ce beau film est la présence Allemande en Indochine. 70-80% des légionnaires étaient Allemands, beaucoup tout droit sorti de la 2GM. En Allemagne, on appelle l'Indochine "le dernier combat de la Wehrmacht et son tombeau". Au moins 7000 Allemands servant sous drapeau Français tués.
Je confirme, il y avait beaucoup d’Allemands. C’est un fait, les rangs de la Légion reflètent toujours les remous de la géopolitique du moment. Les européens de l’Est ont afflué à la chute de l’URSS. C’était pareil à la chute du 3ème Reich. Je me dis juste que ça devait faire bizarre à des anciens de la Wehrmacht de combattre pour la France en uniformes US et de surcroît avec des Noirs comme frères d’armes. Grosse claque du karma !
@@Ndriana La plupart étaient heureux de quitter une Allemagne en ruine et/ou des camps de prisonniers. J'ai lu que beaucoup s'engageaient dans la légion pour pouvoir simplement recevoir à manger. Et se retrouver en Indochine au début ou il faisait chaux et paisible, était un paradis pour eux.
Yea thanks to General Vo Nguyen Giap we won, the French didnt expect we can bring 105mm artileries to the high ground cuz we dont have trucks but we have MANPOWERS
American war flix are often over the top and over dramatic to the point of being ridiculous cinema-opera. French and other European films have subtlety that is lacking in US flix.
" Hell in a Very Small Place" Bernard B Fall is an excellent account of this engagement. Basically, the French were fighting mainland China. The description of the battle is truly horrible.
Not sure about that. Same French director (Pierre Schoendoerfer) made a similar French-Indochina war classic in the mid 1960’s (La 317eme Section) which is a classic.
It's interesting to think that the French lost 2.300 soldiers during the 1 1/2 month battle compared to Russia which has lost 20.000 troops in 2 months in Ukraine.
The sacrifice of life is a great sacrifice, there is only one greater, that of honor. Le sacrifice de la vie est un grand sacrifice, il n'y en a qu'un de plus grand, celui de l'honneur. -French partroopers.
This looks amazing! How'd you get the scenes for the trailer? I've been trying to find this movie for the past week but haven't been able to find it anywhere.
If anyone knows their history, all of this, and the American involvement between 1963-1975, could've been entirely avoided if the French had swallowed their pride and ego, and let the Vietnamese have their independence. Ho Chih Minh was well aware of the US' Constitutional Government, and asked incessantly, in the 1940's and 1950's to act on behalf of Vietnam's Independence from France. Truman, being the bitch made coward he was, decided to cow himself to De Gaulle, who gave him ultimatum between preserving French Indochina as a Colony, or opening the possibility of French diplomacy towards the Soviet Union, which, at that time, until 1953, was still under Stalin's iron grasp, who was also planning on an wide front assault into the West (but was subsequently thwarted by his timely and very questionable "demise"). So of course, France would retain control of Vietnam, Ho and Nguyen, both prominent leaders of the North Vietnamese Government, recognizing the US had turned its back on a prominent ally it had helped in World War II against the Japanese, turned its diplomacy to its pseudo-neighbor China and to the Soviet Union for assistance in Independence... And, of course, they jumped on it immediately if it means killing Western Power uniformed forces AND building influence in a region otherwise untouchable by force... Thus, leading to nearly 20 years of continuous conflict that would ultimately end with the North Vietnamese Government unifying the country under their pseudo-socialist regime... Ho, having died long before the peace agreements and US decision to withdraw and hand over total operational, strategic and tactical responsibilities to ARVN, was unable to influence the North Vietnamese towards a semblance of liberty and away from the false liberty of Socialist Tyranny. In the end, the US involvement was to clean up a mess the French started and refused to clean themselves. The Gulf of Tonkin Incident and subsequent Resolution, was US Government seeing an opportunity to produce a form of "forever war" (First of its kind), in which no declared end goal, with no officially declared enemy, but a clear and blatant militarization to flex the muscles of the US Military Industrial Complex, was birthed. Vietnam, by all rights, intents and purposes, happened because of Truman's Cowardice, France's arrogance, and the developing Cold War that almost turned hot on a multitude of occasions.
The second war was entirely manufactured by the USA, from the coups orchestrated by the CIA in South Vietnam to the gulf of Tonkin incident. It was an opportunity for America to shoehorn their presence there and have permanent bases in South East Asia. Also, care to tell me which country militarized the Vietminh in the first place during the 40's? France gave independance to Cambodia and Laos in 1953, during the war, and by the end of the war in 1954, these countries plus South Vietnam were mostly communist free, something the american "clean up" in the 60's/70's not only failed to achieve but provoked the spread of communism in said countries in 1975.
US loves to insert itself into other countries business to make money and gain influence. Fighting by proxy in other words. Sometimes this works, sometimes it doesn't.
@@PerryKobalt No, this not the same at all. Dien Bien Phu was base of the strategy to build inside the ennemy ligne a fortress who will serv to make a lot of casulties to a ennemy that will be forced to attack this point. Hostomel was the capture of a strategic point the time that the conventionnal forces arrived to take the place
@@shadow2000 I think use human strengh to pull the heavy artllery up the hill is not impossible at all.If you work hard as much as you can,you will know that nothing is impossible.That similar to this situation. Remember,the ancient Egypt people had to pull the rock with few tons or more to built the Pyramid.Just going hard,you can do things that you think is impossible before
@@tranatcter5024 What weird is that Giap General take this from the history of the France. When Napoleon boldy moving his entire army through the Alps. Giap before the war was just a school teacher who inspired by the Napoleon and Lawrence Of Arabia.
It’s not a bad movie, but it doesn’t really do justice to the battle. It looks authentic and the cinematography is nice, but every time it gets close to showing some action, the camera pans away and you only see things from a distance, or it cuts to scenes of a violinist in Hanoi in a very typical artsy French fashion. One of the things that I enjoyed and also found frustrating is that you don’t really see the Viet Minh until the end of the movie. It’s annoying because at times I wanted to see things from their point of view, but it speaks to allusiveness of the Viet Minh, and when thousands of them appear at the end it makes for a very powerful scene.
Go watch Saving Private Ryan, Jarhead, Rambo or any other dumb American action movie if you want to see action, idiot. '' Doesn't do justice to the battle'', director of this movie literally fought in the battle himself. There's plenty of action, and when you don't see it you can use your imagination, if you have any that is. If you don't, then I agree this movie is not for you. I can't remember a movie that pins down the sentiment of a theater of war better than depicted in this movie. Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but to say this movie doesn't do justice to the battle, now that annoys me.
but it won't instead it created another needless war and lost of thousand of life.All for what. Because French want their former status back. Want the world to see France as a major power. Pride in them still a powerful nation like in the 19th century.
