114 minutos
An unconventional essay film that interrogates the visual and ideological legacy of the Vietnam War. Blending staged scenes, archival footage, photographs, and philosophical dialogue, the film follows various characters — including an American soldier captured by North Vietnamese villagers — as they reflect on violence, memory, and image-making. Set partly in West Berlin and partly in reconstructed spaces representing Vietnam, the film avoids traditional dramatic narrative in favor of a fragmented montage of voices, documents, and reenactments. Interweaving love stories, political debate, and historical commentary, Farocki creates a critical reflection on how war is represented, seen, and imagined, both in cinema and in public consciousness. The result is a complex meditation on images as weapons and instruments of perception.
Bruno Ganz
Inga Humpe
Hanns Zischler
Anna Mandel
Marcel Werner
Ernst Helter
Minf HuToMo
Jeff Layton
Ronny Tanner
Hartmut Bitomsky
Rainer Homann
Olaf Scheuring
Michael Wagner
Manfred Lindlbauer
Klaus Henrichs
Ingrid Oppermann
Elfriede Irrall
Frank Arnold
Jacques Thiti
Ursula Hoffmann
Nannette Lorraine Schumacher
Gisela Stelly
Klaus Wohlfart
Willem Menne
