Un barrage contre le pacifique [videorecording] / Catherine Dussart présente un film de Rithy Panh ; d'après le roman de Marguerite Duras ; un scénario de Michel Fessler et Rithy Pahn ; une coproduction CDP ... [et al.].
English title from container: The sea wall. Based on the novel Un barrage contre le pacifique, published by Editions Gallimard in 1950. Special features include interviews with Rithy Panh and actress Isabelle Huppert, a stills gallery and a trailer. Isabelle Huppert, Gaspard Ulliel, Astrid Berges-Frisbey, Randal Douc, Duong Vanthon.
Summary:
In Indochina in 1931, the matriarch of a small land-owning family tries to survive by working on rice fields located dangerously close to the ocean. Driven to fight against both nature and corrupt colonial bureaucrats, she devises an imaginative scheme to build a dam against the sea with the help of the villagers.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)563727143
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
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