

When French writer Marguerite Duras (1914-96) published her novel The Sea Wall in 1950, she came very close to winning the prestigious Prix Goncourt. Meanwhile, in Indochina, France was suffering its first military defeats in its war against the Việt Minh, the rebel movement for independence.

Romane Bohringer
Self - Reader
LeadAnn Laura Stoler
Self- Anthropologist

Françoise Vergès
Self - Politologist

Alain Ruscio
Self - Historian
Boulomsouk Svadphaiphane
Self - Writer

Marguerite Duras
Self - Writer (archive footage)
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