Tuệ Minh
Acting
Biography
People’s Artist Bùi Trần Tuệ Minh (24th February 1938 - 24th February 2018) was a Vietnamese actress, radio presenter, screenwriter and director. Renowned for her sweet looks and a distinctively refined Hanoian accent, she started working for Vietnam Feature Film Studio in 1962 and almost exclusively starred in supporting roles, often portraying tormented and neurotic characters driven to tragic ends. One of her few lead roles was as Hương in “Truyện vợ chồng anh Lực”(1972) which earned her a Best Actress award at 1973 Vietnam Film Festival. On stage, she enjoyed greater acclaim and a wider variety of roles; she was best known for her role as Phượng in Nguyễn Khải’s play “Cách mạng”. After her retirement in 1992, Tuệ Minh regularly hosted children’s radio shows and midnight storytellings for VOV broadcast; she also occasionally wrote and directed a series of video films, as well as lectured at Hanoi National Academy of Theatre and Performing Arts. The actress passed away in a nursing home on her 80th birthday, having been paralysed by a stroke the previous year. She was survived by two daughters through her first marriage with director Huy Vân.
Known For
Following the 1954 Geneva Accords that partitioned Vietnam into two zones at the 17th parallel, a pregnant Dịu remains back in the South with her family while her husband has to move up North. At home, the young woman has to juggle between the duties of a liberation fighter and a mother while enduring her enemies' tortures and imprisonment, as she assumes the leadership of an underground liberation movement after its previous secretary was assassinated
17th Parallel, Nights and Days
Duong and Tho are two military intelligence officers tasked with investigating enemy positions. They arrive in a rural area and meet Kien, a guerrilla fighter. Kien's wife, who deeply loves her husband, fears that if he continues his activities, he will be targeted by terrorists, leading to the destruction of their family's happiness. For this reason, she tries to stop her husband and clashes with Tho.
An Early Autumn Day
A young girl searches for her father, a soldier in the PAVN, after her mother and sister are killed during Christmas Bombings.
The Little Girl of Hanoi
A story about a Catholic Village by the sea in Northern Vietnam in the early 60's, where people lacked faith in the new Communist regime.
The Holy Day
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Who’s To Love, Who’s To Blame
The film follows the life of Nguyễn Văn Trỗi from shortly before he was caught for his attempted assassination of McNamara to his eventual execution, leaving behind his newlywed and others around the couple.
Nguyen Van Troi
The head of a farming co-operative demolishes his house to free up land for the construction of a new irrigation canal, which causes great distress for him and his family.
The Story of Mr. Lực and His Wife
A boy, abandoned by his family, finds himself struggle to continue his study at school and make a living without stepping in the crime-ridden path of his brother.
The Light in The Dream
The story about a group of people struggling to expand agricultural land in North Vietnam.
The slope
Thạch Sanh, a kind-hearted woodcutter, chances upon wine merchant Lý Thông. Orphaned from a young age, he gladly embraces being adopted by Lý Thông as his brother and comes to live with his family, unaware that the scheming merchant has other plans for him.