When French writer Marguerite Duras (1914-96) published her novel The Sea Wall in 1950, she came very close to winning the prestigious Prix Goncourt. Meanwhile, in Indochina, France was suffering its first military defeats in its war against the Việt Minh, the rebel movement for independence.
Romane Bohringer
as Self - Reader
Ann Laura Stoler
as Self- Anthropologist
Françoise Vergès
as Self - Politologist
Alain Ruscio
as Self - Historian
Boulomsouk Svadphaiphane
as Self - Writer
Marguerite Duras
as Self - Writer (archive footage)
