Indochine, sur les traces d'une mère

Indochine, sur les traces d’une mère (English: 'Indochina, Traces of a Mother') is a 2011 documentary film.

Indochine, sur les traces d’une mère
Directed byIdrissou Mora-Kpai
Screenplay byIdrissou Mora-Kpai
Produced byJeanette Jouili Idrissou Mora-Kpai
CinematographyJacques Besse
Edited byRodolphe Molla Agnès Contensou
Music byWasis Diop
Release date
  • 2011 (2011)
Running time
71 minutes
CountriesBenin
France

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Between 1946 and 1954, more than 60,000 African soldiers were sent to the Far East to fight against the Viet Minh. Many unions between Vietnamese women and African soldiers took place, and children were born. Some stayed with their mothers, but others were taken back to Africa. Through the story of Christophe, a 58-year-old Afro-Asian, Idrissou Mora-Kpai not only tells the story of these children of mixed heritage, but also the unnatural fight in which colonized Africans stood against the Vietnamese who were fighting for their independence.

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