Đặng Nhật Minh
Đặng Nhật Minh (b. Huế, Vietnam, 1938) is one of Vietnam's foremost film directors and a screenwriter. Đặng's first work in film was translating Russian films made in the USSR to Vietnamese. When his dad died during the Vietnam War in 1967, he was given party-related career favours which, combined with his own learnings, allowed him to become a director. His first film, made in 1965, was a documentary about geology. Other notable works after this time include: "Ha Bac My Hometown" (Hà Bắc quê hương, 1967), "May - Faces" (Tháng 5 - Những gương mặt, 1975), "Nguyen Trai" (Nguyễn Trãi, 1980). As a documentary filmmaker, he became the government’s observer and reporter of historical events. Đặng then started to adapt existing plays, generating works such as "Stars on the Sea" (Những ngôi sao biển, 1977), "A Year-end Rainy Day" (Ngày mưa cuối năm, 1980). Around 1980, he wrote a short story named "The Town Within Reach" (Thị xã trong tầm tay). It was published in the Văn Nghệ (Literature and Arts) magazine and won a prize, making him consider giving up filmmaking to become a writer. However, not long after that, he made "The Town Within Reach" in 1983 with the encouragement of a new friend, marking the beginning of his filmography. In his autobiography, he notes: "So I determined my direction: I only make films that I myself write the script, talk about issues that interest me, move me. Having found a way to exist in the world of cinema, I don't think about giving up on it ...
The Girl on the River (1987)
A reporter interviews a former prostitute from South Vietnam about her sheltering of an injured Vietcong leader during the war. (more)
A reporter interviews a former prostitute from South Vietnam about her sheltering of an injured Vietcong leader during the war. (more)
Don't Burn (2009)
In the spring of 2005, a mother living in Hanoi receives a diary of her late daughter, a young doctor working at a field hospital during the war. Kept for over thirty years by an American veteran, the diary is an account of her life spanning two years, from April ... (more)
In the spring of 2005, a mother living in Hanoi receives a diary of her late daughter, a young doctor working at a field hospital during the war. Kept for over thirty years by an American veteran, the diary is an account of her life spanning two years, from April ... (more)
The Guava House (2002)
A mentally challenged man spends his days working as an artist's model and visiting the now-occupied house of his childhood, where his beloved guava tree sits. (more)
A mentally challenged man spends his days working as an artist's model and visiting the now-occupied house of his childhood, where his beloved guava tree sits. (more)
When the Tenth Month Comes (1985)
In the final days of the war, Duyen faces a daily struggle to take care of her young son and ailing father-in-law, all the while hiding from them the fact that her husband has recently been killed in battle. (more)
In the final days of the war, Duyen faces a daily struggle to take care of her young son and ailing father-in-law, all the while hiding from them the fact that her husband has recently been killed in battle. (more)
The Town Within Reach (1983)
At the close of the Sino-Vietnamese border war, a journalist travels to Lạng Sơn in northern Vietnam—the hometown of his former girlfriend—to report on the situation there. (more)
At the close of the Sino-Vietnamese border war, a journalist travels to Lạng Sơn in northern Vietnam—the hometown of his former girlfriend—to report on the situation there. (more)
The Return (1994)
In the years following the American war a young woman from Hanoi teaches in a rural school in the south. There she meets a troubled young man, and they have a brief romance that she recalls wistfully years later in her unhappy marriage. (more)
In the years following the American war a young woman from Hanoi teaches in a rural school in the south. There she meets a troubled young man, and they have a brief romance that she recalls wistfully years later in her unhappy marriage. (more)
Nostalgia for the Countryside (1995)
The dynamics of a Vietnamese rural village change when an urban woman returns to the village she originally belonged to and begins a love triangle. (more)
The dynamics of a Vietnamese rural village change when an urban woman returns to the village she originally belonged to and begins a love triangle. (more)
Hanoi: Winter 1946 (1997)
A film about Hồ Chí Minh's attempt to negotiate peaceful autonomy from France in 1946. (more)
A film about Hồ Chí Minh's attempt to negotiate peaceful autonomy from France in 1946. (more)
Miss Nhung (1970)
The film is anchored by a wartime re-encounter between a servant child and a tutor, transformed in the crucible of the spring 1968 Saigon offensive. (more)
The film is anchored by a wartime re-encounter between a servant child and a tutor, transformed in the crucible of the spring 1968 Saigon offensive. (more)
Stars on the Sea (1973)
Tháng Năm, Những gương mặt (1975)