American films have played a large part in the shaping of the popular image of the Vietnam War. This time, though, it is the turn of the other side. A Vietnam War film from the Vietnamese perspective – this rare angle is supplied by this 1974 movie, which marks the American bombing of Hanoi in December 1972, the fighting and the victims all through the story of a young girl who is searching for her father fighting on the front in the chaos of war. One can say that this is a propaganda film – and the truth is, it contains plenty of propaganda elements – but at the same time it is an interesting work in its narrative form and design as well as a moving document of the period.
Vietnam Film Institute
