"Vietnam" ( Vietnamese. Việt Nam ) - the first joint Soviet - Vietnamese feature- documentary film directed by Roman Carmen . Filmed on color film.
| Vietnam | |
|---|---|
| Việt nam (Việt Nam trên đường thắng lợi) | |
| Genre | documentary |
| Producer | Roman Carmen |
| Operator | Roman Carmen Vladimir Yeshurin Evgeny Mukhin Hong Ngi May Lock Nguyen Thien Loy Quang Hui |
| Composer | Kara Karaev |
| Film company | CSDF |
| Duration | 69 minutes |
| A country |  the USSR  North Vietnam |
| Tongue | Russian , Vietnamese |
| Year | 1955 |
 External Images | |
|---|---|
 | Ho Chi Minh, Carmen and Yeshurin during the filming of the documentary "Vietnam" |
Until 2004, only a black and white copy of this film, entitled Vietnam on the Road to Victory ( Vietnamese Việt Nam trên đường thắng lợi ) was shown in northern and united Vietnam [1] .
From material filmed in Hanoi at the Victory Day parade on January 1, 1955, a separate Vietnamese documentary film, Historical Day (Ngày lịch sử) (1955) , was edited [2] .
The color version of the film Vietnam was first shown on Vietnamese television in 2004 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the victory at Dienbienf [1] [3] .
Filming
In May 1954, a group of cameramen from the USSR ( Vladimir Yeshurin , Evgeni Mukhin , led by Roman Carmen ) first arrived at the base of the Vietnamese national partisan forces and the DRV leadership, operating underground in the jungle in the North Vietnamese Vietbak region [4] . The group met with Ho Chi Minh and for eight months, together with the filmmakers of the DRV ( Pham Van Khoa , Mai Lok , Nguyen Tien Loi , Quang Hui , Hong Ngi , writer Nguyen Din Thi ), filmed material for the documentary. In total, about forty thousand meters of color film were shot [5] .
Due to the fact that the Vietnamese authorities feared for the safety of Soviet cameramen, many of the battle scenes in the film "Vietnam" were taken from materials previously shot by Vietnamese cameramen, and many battle scenes were staged in the form of reconstructions of real events. It is for this reason that the film credits indicate that it is an art-documentary [6] .
Meeting with captured Frenchmen, Roman Carmen talked several times with captured French front-line cameraman Pierre Schönderffer and watched his documentary footage of the battles confiscated by the Vietnamese authorities. What is the subsequent fate of these films is still unknown to the general public. After some time, Pierre Schönderffer was released and returned to his homeland in France, this was largely due to Roman Carmen. Later, already becoming a famous filmmaker, Pierre Schönderffer in his interviews recalled meetings in captivity with Roman Carmen and, among other things, indicated that many production scenes of fights were made by Roman Carmen based on shots from his documentary films [6 , Schönderffer [6 ] .
Contents
The film begins with the frames of the Victory Parade in Hanoi on January 1, 1955 [7] . The film further tells about the history and traditions of the Vietnamese people, and also demonstrates numerous documentary and reconstructed [6] shots of various events of the First Indochina War , including: a meeting with the former commander of the garrison Dienbyenfu captured General de Castries , the liberation of the Vietnamese provinces from the French, transfer the city of Hanoi from the French to the Vietnamese partisans [5] and others [8] .
Camera crew
- Roman Carmen - screenwriter, director, cameraman
- Fam Van Khoa - Consultant, Assistant Director (uncredited) [5]
- Vladimir Yeshurin - cameraman
- Evgeny Mukhin - cameraman
- Hong Ngi - cameraman
- Mai Lock - cameraman
- Nguyen Thien Loy - cameraman
- Quang Hui - cameraman
- Nguyen Din Thi - Literature Assistant [9] , literary consultant
- Pierre Schönderffer - cameraman, uncredited
Rewards
- In 1955, Roman Carmen , Vladimir Yeshurin and Eugene Mukhin were awarded the Orders of Labor of Vietnam [10] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Forum Nyat-Nam.ru :: View topic - Vietnam in the film by Roman Carmen
- ↑ Historical Day . Archived on April 9, 2013.
- ↑ Vietnam Cinema "Actors, Cinema and Television (unavailable link) . Date of access March 21, 2013. Archived July 20, 2012.
- ↑ IN THE BURNING WAGON THROUGH THE JUNGLE - Adventures behind the movie screen
- ↑ 1 2 3 MILITARY LITERATURE - [Memoirs] - Carmen R. L. But Pasaran!
- ↑ 1 2 3 Vietnam
- ↑ Vietnam . Archived on April 9, 2013.
- ↑ The film Vietnam .. (1955) . Archived on April 9, 2013.
- ↑ Nyat Nam.ru forum :: View topic - Vietnam in the film by Roman Carmen . Archived on April 9, 2013.
- ↑ News Presentation of orders to cameramen who created the film “Vietnam”. 1955 Studio TSSDF (RCSDF)
Links
- The film "Vietnam" on the site of Net-film.
See also
- First Indochina War
- Battle of Dienbienf