Un barrage contre le Pacifique (2008)
07 Jan 2009 • Drama • 1h 56m
French Indochina, 1931. In the Gulf of Siam, a Widow and her two children, Joseph, 2o, and Suzanne, 16, barely survive by exploiting rice fields located much too close to the ocean. Every year their crops are flooded and their only hope lies in the construction of a seawall. The mother refuses to give up and desperately battles both the sea and the corrupt colonial bureaucrats ...
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French
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1 nomination
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France, Cambodia, Belgium
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