Introduction to the Enemy

Synopsis

Jane fonda, Tom Hayden and Haskell Wexler made a journey, in Sping of '74, from Hanoi to Quang Tri. There live poets and soldiers, doctors and peasants, artists and workers. all of them people who have to reconstruct their houses which have been bombed, first by the French and later by the Americans. This collection of people is the anonymous enemy that is talked about in the USA during the war in Vietnam. Introduction to the Enemy performs the task of revealing their faces.

Director Biography

Haskell Wexler ASC (February 6, 1922 – December 27, 2015) was an American cinematographer, film producer, and director. Wexler was judged to be one of film history's ten most influential cinematographers in a survey of the members of the International Cinematographers Guild. He won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography twice, in 1966 and 1976, out of five nominations. In his obituary in The New York Times, Wexler is described as being "renowned as one of the most inventive cinematographers in Hollywood."