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Released
1980 · FILM

The Children of an Lac

Runtime
100 min
DramaTV Movie

Synopsis

The film is based on the true story of actress Ina Balin and her collaboration with American Red Cross volunteer Betty Tisdale, along with a compassionate Vietnamese woman who ran an orphanage in Saigon. Together, they worked to rescue and evacuate as many children as possible from the country before the fall of South Vietnam in the spring of 1975, as part of the An Lac baby-lift.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 17

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Anthony DimarcoShot by Donald McalpineScored by Paul Chihara

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