STARTING PLACE

Robert Kramer
1993 Vietnam, France 90 min Languages: English, French, Vietnamese

In 1969, Robert Kramer travels to North Vietnam. Out of this trip came his film, People’s War. In 1992, he returns to run a film workshop in Hanoi. Starting Place is the result of a reflection on the past, a reunion with the interpreter and cameraman he worked with in 1969, and meetings with Vietnamese people he knew back then.

Robert Kramer

Robert Kramer is an American independent filmmaker, born in New York in 1939. Very active politically in the 1960s, he participated in the radical left-wing movements against the Vietnam War and for the emancipation of minorities. During the Pentagon demonstration in 1967, he met other filmmakers with whom he founded the Newsreel collective. We owe him key films about this generation, including Ice and Milestones. He emigrated to France in the early 1980s, where he lived until his death in 1999.

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Photography :
NGUYỄN Thuoc
Sound :
Olivier Schwob
Editing :
Marie-Hélène Mora, Robert Kramer, Christine Benoit
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