Starting Place

Starting Place

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Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 9, 1994

Runtime

1h 20m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

70%

Original Title

Point de départ / Starting Place

Director

Robert Kramer

Description

In this film from late in his career, Kramer returns to Hanoi after nearly 25 years to re-envision the city’s struggle through an uncertain and daunting past, present, and future. The Vietnamese characters in the film are diverse: Kramer’s former guide from an earlier visit in 1969; a tight-rope walker in the national circus; a man who took photos of B-52s and another who lost his fingers shooting them down.