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17th Parallel, Nights and Days

17th Parallel, Nights and Days

Goodbye my love, we will meet again on Liberation Day !

1973 · 180 min · ★ 8.0 · Drama, War, History

Following the 1954 Geneva Accords that partitioned Vietnam into two zones at the 17th parallel, a pregnant Dịu remains back in the South with her family while her husband has to move up North. At home, the young woman has to juggle between the duties of a liberation fighter and a mother while enduring her enemies' tortures and imprisonment, as she assumes the leadership of an underground liberation movement after its previous secretary was assassinated

Directed by Hải Ninh · Written by Hoàng Tích Chỉ

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