Betrayal, The

Striking photography dots this heartrending, deeply moving, eye-opening, highly personal, 87-minute Ellen Kuras documentary filled with memorable news footage, home movies, and archival photographs as Laotian co-director Thavisouk Phrasavath expertly chronicles the arduous and hellish journey of his large family to Brooklyn, New York, after escaping persecution in Laos upon the imprisonment of his father in a "reeducation" camp in 1975 after he diligently worked for the Americans as a Royal Lao solider during the Vietnam War and their subsequent trials and tribulations of making a new life in America.
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