Filmmaker Barbara Sonneborn takes a deeply personal trip back to Vietnam in this brilliant, emotionally shattering documentary. Nearly 25 years after receiving the dreaded telegram informing her that her husband Jeff had been killed in the jungles of Que
Sanh, North Vietnam, Sonneborn embarked on a journey that had been a long time coming. Since 1990, she had conducted interviews with fellow American widows who also lost their husbands to the unpopular war. Two years later, accompanied by a small camera crew and interpreter Xuan Ngoc Evans, a
South Vietnamese war widow now living the U.S., Sonneborn boarded a plane bound for Vietnam, determined to see for the faraw...
Released:
1999
Rated:
NR
Length:
72 mins