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Regret to Inform
Film poster
Directed byBarbara Sonneborn
Written byBarbara Sonneborn
CinematographyEmiko Omori
Daniel Reeves
Nancy Schiesari
Edited byLucy Massie Phenix
Ken Schneider
Release date
  • 1998 (1998)
Running time
72 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Regret to Inform is a 1998 American documentary film directed by Barbara Sonneborn. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature,[1] and won a Peabody Award in 2000.[2]

The film was made over a span of ten years. The documentary features filmmaker Barbara Sonneborn as she goes to the Vietnamese countryside where her husband was killed. Her translator is a fellow war widow named Xuan Ngoc Nguyen and together, the two women try to understand their losses. The film includes interviews with Vietnamese and American widows.

References

  1. ^ "NY Times: Regret to Inform". NY Times. Retrieved November 22, 2008.
  2. ^ 60th Annual Peabody Awards, May 2001.