c4250 charlie bravo (france, 1980)

C4250 CHARLIE BRAVO (FRANCE, 1980)
Credits: director, Claude Bernard-Aubert ; writers, Claude Bernard-Aubert,
Pascal Jardin.
Cast: Bruno Pradal, Jean Francois Poron, Karine Verlier.
Summary: War film set in French Indochina in 1954. Based on the director's
experience as a photo-journalist covering the French Army in Vietnam. A 13man commando unit parachutes into northern Vietnam to rescue a Red
Cross nurse being held by the Viet Minh. The commandos massacre a village
and Viet Minh prisoners in the process. They then begin a fighting
withdrawal to the coast where they are finally caught and wiped out by the
Viet Minh.
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legion saute sur Kolwezi’ et ‘Charlie Bravo’)” Positif n. 237 (Dec 1980), p.
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