Summary
Napalm is the story of the breathtaking and brief encounter, in 1958, between a French member of the first Western European delegation officially invited to North Korea after the devastating Korean war and a nurse working for the Korean Red Cross hospital, in Pyongyang, capital of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
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Critics vs audiences
Critics like it more than audiences (+11)
Critics 71Audiences 60GoodWatch 57
Tomatometer71%
Letterboxd · 236 ratings3.3/5
IMDb5.4
Running time
1 h 40 min
A typical length for documentaries
typical 96100Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
To rent or buy in 2 countries
Released
2017
September 6, 2017
9 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
French
Original language
Also spoken
EnglishKoreanMade in
France
Directing · 1
- Claude Lanzmann Director, Writer
Production · 1
- François Margolin Producer
Camera · 1
- Caroline Champetier Director of Photography
Editing · 1
- Chantal Hymans Editor
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