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NHIEM
The story of Việt cộng war cameraman Nhiem.
This intense story follows the life of a young Vietnamese man in the 1970’s, starting out as an 19 year old camera assistant and eventually becoming the Viet Cong’s documentary eye.
“Nhiem”, which is based on a true story, provides the foundation to build a fictional character “on real events”, thereby allowing for the narrative freedom to add a new perspective on the Vietnam war genre and to tell the story from a Vietnamese point of view.
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Vietnam 1967. Nhiem is a 19-year-old film student, when he is forced to leave his studies and join the Vietnam War. During the Tet Offensive, at the Ho-Chi-Minh trail and many other locations, he experiences the full extent and the sufferings of war. During a mission he meets cameraman Khai. Over the next months, their paths cross several times, and when Nhiem is detailed to join the “jungle studios”, he meets Khai again and becomes his supervisor. With courage and an eye for the right images, Nhiem eventually becomes a front cameraman of the Việt cộng. Documenting countless moments of a long lasting war, he begins to question what the true images are, in this war of a divided nation. (For Nhiem the war ended in 1975, on the day the North Vietnamese troops took over the Presidential Palace in Saigon.)
GENRE
TV series, War
DISTRIBUTION
TV / VOD
SHOOTING LANGUAGE
English
TERRITORIES OF EXPLOITATION
International
LENGTH
6 x 60min
SHOOTING PERIOD
2022
SHOOTING LOCATIONS
Vietnam
CAST
Laëtitia Eïdo
Sebastian Koch
SCRIPT
Heinrich Hadding (Pope Joan)
SHOWRUNNER
Roger Donaldson
DIRECTOR
Roger Donaldson
Pia Strietmann
PRODUCER
Alexander van Dülmen
Stephan Wagner
CO-PRODUCER
Mai Nguyen
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Paul Higginson
Roberto Almagia
PRODUCTION COMPANY
carte blanche International
CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY
Scarlett Visions
A Company Vietnam
Y Anh
DEVELOPMENT STATUS
Treatment
BASED ON
True events
RELEASE DATE
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