71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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Cao-Xa

Pedro Mario Herrero
Spain
Synopsis

In North Vietnam, the village of Cao-Xa, a Catholic village, is attacked by the forces of the Vietcong. When its priest, a Spanish Dominican, is made to leave the village, all of the village inhabitant decide to share his fate and follow him. Their fight becomes one of continual hardship.

At the same time, a youth belonging to the national Liberation Front of South Vietnam fights the government army and guards the Cambodian frontier to keep it open for the infiltration of men and material.

When the priest and his people reach South Vietnam, the government gives them land dear Jay Ninh, on the Cambodian frontier. They are attacked and the village patriarch is killed. It is then that the priest understands the need for self-defense, and begins the construction of a small fort. There is a severe attack and the Catholics resist in the new hamlet calle Cao-Xa, South Vietnam, as they do every other attempt to destroy them after 1964,

Director
Pedro Mario Herrero (Spain)
Running Time
111 m.
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Spain
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