Director: Santiago Álvarez
Country: Cuba
Award: none
Movement: Post-revolution Cuban Cinema
Hanoi, martes 13 (Hanoi, Tuesday the 13th) is a 1968 short documentary film by Cuban director Santiago Álvarez, documenting the impact of the Vietnam War on North Vietnamese citizens on December 13, 1966. The film is celebrated as a powerful, poetic anti-war polemic. Filmed in Hanoi on December 13, 1966, this documentary records the lives of people in the Vietnam capital and surrounding countryside at the height of U.S. bombing. Their daily activities are presented in a collage of images: building irrigation ditches, planting rice, fishing, weaving. Life continued despite the shower of U.S. bombs. During these air raids, the people formed armed self-defense units so efficient that the life of the nation was not interrupted.
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