Vietnamese audiences will be reintroduced to President Ho Chi Minh and
his revolutionary struggle through a new French documentary called Ho
Chi Minh: Dream of Peace.
Producer Dominique de Miscault on
Nov.15 agreed to allow the film to be broadcast on Vietnam Television's
VTV4 channel in the near future.
Dream of Peace will be presented
in French with Vietnamese or English subtitles, so that audiences
around the world can have access to the story.
The film is based
on the book Je reviens au Vietnam libre (I Returned to Liberal Vietnam),
written by Leo Figuerre, a French journalist and a senior official of
the French Communist Party, who was impressed by President Ho and
documented his experiences at the Viet Bac resistance base in north
Vietnam in the 1950s.
A painter and installation artist, de
Miscault harboured the idea of making a Ho Chi Minh documentary for a
long time and slowly accumulated information, images, and stories about
the president. She convinced Figuerre to share his documents and
collaborate on the film.
"As a foreigner, it was difficult to
make a film about such a well-known Vietnamese leader, shoot scenes in
Vietnam and present it to Vietnamese audiences," she said.
"Luckily, the challenges just increased my determination."
"President Ho Chi Minh was a great person and Vietnamese people should know more about him. So, this is not my film, but yours."
De
Miscault has been exhibiting in France and elsewhere in Europe since
1969. She has held gallery shows in Vietnam, China and Russia.
Her work has been displayed in Hanoi and HCM City more than 10 times.
She
now works at the Association d'Amitie Franco-Vietnamien
(France-Vietnamese Friendship Association), one of the first
international organisations to support the lawsuit of Vietnam's Agent
Orange victims against American chemical companies that produced the
defoliants. She is also an editor-in-chief of the organisation's
magazine, Perspectives France-Vietnam./.
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