Freely adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Seymour Hersh, this film recounts the My Lai massacre in Vietnam and the story of a platoon of American soldiers led by Second Lieutenant Wm. Calley. Falling into an ambush, they come under enemy fire and in the disastrous fight that ensues, two young soldiers lose their lives; a third is so badly injured that Sgt. Cowen is forced to put him out of his hopeless agony.
Writing
Adapts Pulitzer journalism without sanitizing
Direction
Bertola's refusal to aestheticize horror
Director
Paolo Bertola
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Seymour Hersh broke the My Lai story in 1969 after the Army buried it; his reporting nearly didn't find a publisher willing to print it.
William Calley was the only soldier convicted for My Lai, served just three years under house arrest, and never publicly expressed remorse until 2009.
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