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Les âmes errantes

2007 · 84 min

A quiet, haunting journey through memory and loss, where the weight of history is felt in every landscape and silence.

Directed by
Boris Lojkine
Genres
Documentary
Overview
In Vietnam, thirty years after the war, the ghosts of the past have not finished haunting the living: hundreds of thousands of soldiers have died without burial, reduced to the sad fate of wandering souls. Armed with their unit records, Tho and Doan, two former Viet Cong fighters, set out in search of the graves of their comrades, in the hope of bringing their bodies back to their families. From forgotten battlefields to cemeteries of "unknown soldiers", their quest takes them back to the places that marked their youth and forged their destiny.

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Directed by
Boris Lojkine
Genres
Documentary
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • war
  • memory
  • death
  • grief
  • loyalty
Places
  • countryside
  • road trip
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • documentary
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
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Scales, 0 to 10
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Action1
Horror1
Humour1
Realism9
Romance0
Tension3
Darkness6
Complexity5
Emotional weight8

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Genres
documentary
Directed by
Boris Lojkine
Runtime
84 min
Country
France
Languages
Vietnamese

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