Barrage contre le Pacifique, Un (2008)DVD VHS | Cast list | | Isabelle Huppert | as | La mère | | Gaspard Ulliel | as | Joseph | | Astrid Berges-Frisbey | as | Suzanne | | Randal Douc | as | Monsieur Jo | | Vanthon Duong | as | Le caporal | | Stéphane Rideau | as | Agosti | | Lucy Harrison | as | Carmen | | Doeun Thenn Nan | as | M. Khing | | Chorn Solyda | as | Le père Sok (as Solida Chorn) | | Ingrid Mareski | as | La femme de Pierre | | Louis Arsac | as | Pierre | | Rosa Meas | as | A'chan | | Mang Son | as | A'sok | | Phén Vann | as | Le chef du village | | Jean-Pol Brissart | as | M. Bideau |
| | Crew list: | | Rithy Panh (Director) | | Marguerite Duras (Writer) | | Michel Fessler (Writer) |
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Review
French Indochina, 1931. In the Gulf of Siam, a Widow and her two children, Joseph, 2o, and Suzanne, 16, barely survive by exploiting rice fields located much too close to the ocean. Every year their crops are flooded and their only hope lies in the construction of a seawall. The mother refuses to give up and desperately battles both the sea and the corrupt colonial bureaucrats ... |
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