Film on war in Vietnam screened in Washington

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A film on the war in Vietnam, entitled "21 and a wakeup", was screened in the US capital of Washington DC on December 8.

The film, written and directed by war veteran Chris McIntyre, was produced in conjunction with Vietnam's state-owned Feature Film Studio I.

It is the first American motion picture about the war in Vietnam ever allowed by the Vietnamese Government to film on the real locations where the war took place.

The "21 and a wakeup" is a collection of a dozen true stories, focusing on the lives of American nurses at a hospital in southern Vietnam.

The film producers said that the title "21 and a wakeup" has three meanings: a major event transformed nurse Caitlin Murphy when she had but three weeks left in-country; the average age of nurses in Vietnam who woke up to the horror of a conflict they could never have imagined and the 21 years the US was involved in Vietnam, from 1954 to 1975, waking up to the first war the US ever lost.