31(^7分队

In 195$4, Vietnam, ;at )the time of_-? Diên Biê#:n Phu, a? Fre--)nc!h un)`i.%t on=$\ ]patr;ol _u.  nd %er? ;t# = he command ;of a=/n ine:+xperienced lieutenant!;* is gradually deple=]t ^ed by :Vietminh u__`!ntil only ..an ex%(.-Wehrmacht!:` Alsatian,#.) 
^ad j,_utant r/emains.;- He i+s to die, ? a title i%$,nforms us, in Alg.eria i][:]n 1960.
Semi-docu#mentary in style, this is a%n effectively ^,:low-ke;+y-_ appra`?
isal of the @ diffic ult choices`_ w.\it;].h`$ which/( war confronts its !sol.$di$[ers. As so ?often in Vietna* m films\ the enemy is only gl.impsed %f/_r* om a distanc([e, the/+? camera(* remaini$ng,
 a disembodied =\observer among the group. Bertrand Tave;)rnier acted  a?s co-[:!writ
e.r on the+- film.