Regret to Inform

A film by Barbara Sonneborn and Janet Cole

The impact of war over time

Regret to Inform weaves together stories of widows from both sides of the American-Vietnam war in a profoundly moving examination of the impact of war over time.

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Director

Barbara Sonneborn and Janet Cole

Producer

Barbara Sonneborn

Runtime

72 & 58 minutes

Rights Represented

International Rights

Captions Available

None Available

Language

English

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At the age of 24, American director Barbara Sonneborn lost her husband in the Vietnam War. Twenty years after his death, Sonneborn sets out to interview other American and Vietnamese women whose spouses died in the conflict. Along the way she meets a Vietnamese woman who was forced into prostitution during the war, an American woman whose husband died of chemical poisoning years after the conflict ended and a woman who worked as a North Vietnamese spy.

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Regret to Inform

The impact of war over time

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