Vietnam Cycle(4)
Documentary cycle by Heynowski and Scheumann
Devil's Island (1976)
Le Quang Vinh, a revolutionary student leader, was arrested in Saigon in August 1961. A show trial and death sentence followed. World-wide protests altered it to “life imprisonment” on Con Son, the Devil’s Island. The humiliating “Tiger-Cages” and the methods of torture are shown.
And Then the First Rice (1977)
Stories from the first summer after the end of the war in Vietnam
I Sincerely Repent (1977)
Interviews with former generals of the South Vietnamese Army in the Quang Trung re-education camp, shortly after the end of the Vietnam War.
The Iron Fortress (1977)
Weeks after the victory in Vietnam, first pictures of a new humanity are captured: old and sick people preparing for their future, children on their way to school.