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Review: The Vietnam War, as Fought by the French, in ‘The 317th Platoon’

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Pierre Schoendoerffer was a war photographer in what was known as Indochina in the early ’50s, and was a prisoner of war at Dien Bien Phu. The experience was, it can be inferred, a defining one for Mr. Schoendoerffer, who died at 83 in 2012. He first wrote “The 317th Platoon” as a novel, and made it into a film in 1964, traveling to Cambodia to shoot at authentic locations.

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