Different Sons

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Different Sons

Different Sons
Jack Ofield
Retrospective: Un-American Activities 2025
Documentary Film
USA
1971
55 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
None

On 4 September 1970, a group of Vietnam veterans set out on a long march from Morristown, New Jersey, to Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. Their goal: to convince the local population along the way of the injustice that has been going on in Vietnam for years. They did this not just with speeches by the wayside, but with shocking, unannounced and publicly performed re-enactments. Complete with uniforms and plastic machine guns, supported by extras, they thus draw attention to their own war crimes in Indochina. Both camera and tape recorder stay close to all this, capturing the reactions of passers-by and city residents. Solidarity on the one hand, vicious insults on the other. A deep divide runs through the “home front”.

Tobias Hering, Tilman Schumacher

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Director
Jack Ofield
Cinematographer
Bob Ipcar, Lee Kenower, Bob Baldwin, Bob Fiore
Producer
Arthur Littman, Bob Sann, Wendy Megginson
Score
Phil Ochs