THE GIRL IN THE PICTURE, THE STORY BEHIND THE PHOTO

The symbol of Vietnam's hell

Format: HD
Duration: 52’
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Available version: English
Rights: All Rights | Southeast Asia

Synopsis

On June 8, 1972, in Trang Bang, the South Vietnamese air force bombed a temple with napalm. It didn't shelter Vietcong soldiers, but their own fighters and civilians.

A nine-year-old girl emerges from the gigantic wall of flames and, unknowingly, finds herself in the lens of a young photographer witnessing the event. He doesn't know it yet, but he has frozen forever the figure that will embody "the hell of Vietnam".

This film retraces the extraordinary story of this young burnt girl whose terrible picture will contribute, by its power, to overturn world opinion against the Vietnam War.