Director Le Lam wants to build memorial house to sappers

At the meeting, Mr. Le Lam said about his plan to continue to find valuable materials about people working in France through periods to make a film about them, in order to help later generations know about a part of history, about Vietnamese sappers in France.

The director said that when returning to Vietnam this time, he wanted to do something in gratitude for the contributions of the sappers, who had to lived a deplorable, tragic life in France under the domination of the German Fascist. They were the first people to plant and grow rice in Carmague, southern France. Living in France under the colonial regime, they always remembered about Vietnam, they contributed their force to support the struggle for national liberation of President Ho Chi Minh. However, some of them came back home and they were misunderstood because they had worked for France.

With the idea of erecting a memorial house, exhibiting objects of the sappers who lived and worked in France in the 1940s and were considered by the French as the masters of wet rice farming to help the people of the two countries understand more about the history, Director Le Lam wanted Vice Minister Vu Hong Nam and SCOV to create favourable conditions to support and bring his ambitions into reality.

The Vice Minister highly appreciated the sentiment and enthusiasm of the director with the Vietnamese sappers in France and ideas full of humanity. He said SCOV would coordinate with the relevant authorities to assist the director in the process of gathering witnesses in Vietnam and contacting departments so that the director's activities will create effects in society.

Mr. Le Lam thanked the Vice Minister for his warm welcome and hoped that he would have more opportunities to cooperate with local agencies in order to have more lively films to promote Vietnamese culture to international friends./.