On March 16, 1968, in the midst of the Vietnam War, in the village of My Lai, American soldiers from the Charlie Company executed 504 civilians. Women, children, old people.
Suffocated by the army, the ma$$@cr€ remained secret until November 1969. The press seized on the affair.
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00:00 Introduction
06:00 The beginnings of the Charlie Company
13:10 My Lai Massacre
19:55 Photos of Ron Haeberle
25:11 The rescue of Hugh Thompson
30:27 A wind of revolt blows over the United States
37:41 The press seizes the case
43:55 After trial
Unsustainable photos go around the world and public opinion shifts. Forty years later, this film follows the traces left by this terrible event in those who experienced it: Fred Widmer, a former Charlie Company GI, Ron Haeberle, the photographer who caused the scandal, and
Larry Colburn, a former GI who stepped in to end the carnage. He returns to My Lai, to meet the Vietnamese survivors. In the snowy suburbs of Cleveland, in an ordinary high school in Pittsburgh and the sparkling rice fields of My Lai, the film delves into their memories and tells of these ghosts that still haunt each of them.
Movie: Ghosts of My Lai
A film written by Thomas Bronnec
Directed by Thomas Bronnec and Jean Crépu
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17 июн 2024
