wiltvid Review of Koordinaty smerti

Koordinaty smerti (1986)

A Nam movie, a movie from "the other side"

[8/10 · 27 October 2007]

Very different angle, very interesting for history fans. And after more than 35 years, emotions should be more sober. Try to watch it with an open mind, the world is not black & white. A true Cold War product, it is of course promoting communism, and probably hard to swallow for the conservative Minded. You will see the Vietcong and the NVA as the good guys, and the Americans as the bad guys. Nevertheless a well crafted and convincing Fim, if you watch it from an artistic point of view. A caravan of Vietnamese Guerillas is moving along the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Among them is an American Actress and Singer, Kate Francis, who came to Vietnam in order, on her return home, to tell the truth about the war. I Haiphong, Kate's Vietnamese friend , May, introduces the actress to her husband , sapper Fong, who just came back from the Sovietunion on the Merchand ship "Chelyabinsk". Only by some miracle the friends manage to foil an explosion at the Haiphong port that was prepared by the American secret service.