Before Your Eyes - Vietnam

Before Your Eyes - Vietnam (1982)

Drama

An unconventional essay film that interrogates the visual and ideological legacy of the Vietnam War. Blending staged scenes, archival footage, photographs, and philosophical dialogue, the film follows various characters — including an American soldier captured by North Vietnamese villagers — as they reflect on violence, memory, and image-making. Set partly in West Berlin and partly in reconstructed spaces representing Vietnam, the film avoids traditional dramatic narrative in favor of a fragmented montage of voices, documents, and reenactments. Interweaving love stories, political debate, and historical commentary, Farocki creates a critical reflection on how war is represented, seen, and imagined, both in cinema and in public consciousness. The result is a complex meditation on images as weapons and instruments of perception.

Director: Harun Farocki

Casts

	Bruno Ganz as
	Inga Humpe as
	Hanns Zischler as
	Anna Mandel as
	Marcel Werner as
	Ernst Helter as
	Minf HuToMo as
	Jeff Layton as
	Ronny Tanner as
	Hartmut Bitomsky as
	Rainer Homann as
	Olaf Scheuring as
	Michael Wagner as
	Manfred Lindlbauer as
	Klaus Henrichs as
	Ingrid Oppermann as
	Elfriede Irrall as
	Frank Arnold as
	Jacques Thiti as
	Ursula Hoffmann as
	Nannette Lorraine Schumacher as
	Gisela Stelly as
	Klaus Wohlfart as
	Willem Menne as

Crew