Regret to Inform

Regret to Inform — Plot

In this film made over ten years, filmmaker Barbara Sonneborn goes on a pilgrimage to the Vietnamese countryside where her husband was killed. She and translator (and fellow war widow) Xuan Ngoc Nguyen explore the meaning of war and loss on a human level. The film weaves interviews with Vietnamese and American widows into a vivid testament to the legacy of war.

• Release date
• July 22, 1999
• Runtime
• 72 min
• Genres
• Documentary
• Director
• Barbara Sonneborn