In the spring of 2005, an old mother living in Hanoi receives a diary. The diary carries the notes of a young woman doctor who worked at a national liberation front hospital for two years starting in 1968 until her death. The diary was first discovered by a US military officer, who kept it for 35 years. The diary was then published in Vietnam and caused a sensation. The long moving journey linking Vietnam with the US is depicted through a true story adapted by Dan Nyat Minh, one of Vietnam’s top film directors.Read More »
Nhat Minh Dang
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Nhat Minh Dang – Dung dot AKA Don’t Burn (2009)
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Nhat Minh Dang – Mua oi aka The Season of Guavas aka La saison des goyaves (2000)
1991-2000DramaNhat Minh DangVietnamA middle-aged man whose emotional and mental development ended at adolescence becomes obsessed with a guava tree in the yard of his former childhood home. When he is arrested trying sneak into the yard, he forms a unique relationship with the daughter of the home’s current resident.Read More »
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Nhat Minh Dang, Duc Hinh Nguyen – Chi nhung aka Miss Nhung (1970)
Nhat Minh Dang1961-1970DramaDuc Hinh NguyenVietnamWarDuring the General offensive of Spring 1968 in Saigon, there is a communications girl who guides Vietnamese soldiers to fight with the enemy. Tam Son recognizes her as “little Nhung” a girl he knows. At just 10 years old, Nhung’s father went to the North and her mother was killed by the enemy. Nhung had to become a maid for a rich family, who also employed Tam Son to tutor their children.Read More »
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Nhat Minh Dang – Co gai tren song aka The Girl on the River (1987)
Nhat Minh Dang1981-1990DramaVietnamWarAfter the liberation of the South, Nguyet, a prostitute on the Huong river tries to find a revolutionary she had rescued from the enemy. She hopes to find him again.
Source adapted from: Viet Nam Film Institute, (2008). Catalogue of Vietnamese Awarded Films (1949-2005). Ha Noi: Viet Nam.Read More »
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Nhat Minh Dang – Bao gio cho den thang muoi AKA The Love Doesn’t Come Back (1984)
1981-1990ArthouseDramaNhat Minh DangVietnamIn the final days of the war, a beautiful young widow, 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. Keeping her secret burden to herself, she is befriended by the village schoolmaster, Zhang, who agrees to fabricate letters from her dead husband in order to spare her family sorrow. As their friendship deepens, Duyen and Zhang find themselves drawn closer to intimacy – a dangerous relationship if Duyen if to maintain her charade.Read More »
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Nhat Minh Dang – Thuong nho dong que aka Nostalgia for the Countryside (1995)
1991-2000DramaNhat Minh DangVietnamPowerful and poetic, Nostalgia for the Countryside explores the tensions and traumas of everyday life in a rural Vietnamese village. The arrival from abroad of Quyen, who fled the village as a small girl, coincides with the sexual awakening of 17-year-old Nham, through whose eyes the story unfolds. While picturesque on the surface, the countryside that Quyen dreamed about turns out to be a landscape of poverty, passion and tragedy – though not without pockets of warmth and humor.Read More »