Hải Ninh
Directing
Biography
People's Artist Hải Ninh (b. Nguyễn Hải Ninh, Thanh Hóa province, December 31, 1931 - February 5, 2013) was a Vietnamese director. He was the Director of the Vietnam Feature Film Studio from 1984 to 1994. Starting his career since 1956, he belongs to the first class of the Vietnam Film School and is one of the pioneers who laid the bricks for Vietnamese cinema. After working as an assistant director on the film "An Early Day in Autumn" (Một ngày đầu thu, 1962), he directed "The Young Soldier" (Người chiến sĩ trẻ). After that, he made an unforgettable impression with works such as "O Tham Forest" (Rừng O Thắm), "17th Parallel: Nights and Days" (Vĩ tuyến 17 ngày và đêm), "The Little Girl of Hanoi" (Em bé Hà Nội), "First Love" (Mối tình đầu), "A Night of Long Tri Festival" (Đêm hội Long Trì), "Ephemeral Life" (Kiếp phù du), "Love on the Edge of the Abyss" (Tình yêu bên bờ vực thẳm), "The Beach of Life" (Bãi biển đời người), etc. Hải Ninh also made documentaries "The first day of peace in Quang Tri" (Ngày hòa bình đầu tiên ở Quảng Trị), "The Island of Freedom" (Hòn đảo tự do), "City at Dawn" (Thành phố lúc rạng đông). His films have been shown and acclaimed both within the nation and in countries overseas. Hải Ninh was a close friend of another prominent Vietnamese director, Hồng Sến.
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
A thrilling and haunting account of historical events in the Trịnh clan in the late 18th century with the central conflict between lord Trịnh Sâm who was feeble and indecisive, and a cunning and manipulative concubine named Đặng Thị Huệ. Based on the novel of the same name by Nguyễn Huy Tưởng.
Night of Long Tri
Posing as a privileged man working for his wealthy industrialist uncle, Commander of the Saigon Rangers Tư Chung prepares with his comrades for a secret meeting with a coming Vietcong officer, alias "K9". The first part of a series based on a real-life organization involved in intelligence activities in South Vietnam before 1975.
Saigon Rangers: The Meeting Place
A soldier returns home after the war, only to finds out his family thinks he is dead, and his wife has married another man.
Wild Reeds
A young policeman is determined to trace down the elusive Windy Devil Gang that has been wrecking terror and fear across the city. As the chase seems to know no bounds, the possibilities of discovery dissolve into infinity.
In Chase of the Windy Devil Gang
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
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To Catch a Thief 1: I Am Not Born For Imprisonment
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To Catch A Thief 2: The Woman In Nun's Habit
With his parents busied by the toils of daily life during the subsidy days, little Minh's grandmother is closest to him in the family. Until one day...
When Grandmother Is Away
To keep up with his public guise, Tư Chung considers marriage with his "girlfriend" and tries to flatter some trust out of the CIA advisors who've been eyeing the pair, all the while following new orders to plan and launch an important offensive. The second part of a series based on a real-life organization involved in intelligence activities in South Vietnam before 1975.
Saigon Rangers: Silence
Sinh lives in an alley with her elderly mother and Hà, her daughter. When Toàn, an engineer, moves in with them, the mother-daughter relationship becomes tested
Love in the Alley
Don Duong stars as a truck driver who falls in love with a young student girl in a roadside border canteen. Unsure about him, she returns to school but finally decides to throw in her lot with him. This decision forms the gambling motif in the film, a decision which causes her grief, when she later becomes the subject of his gamble.
The Gamble
The battle for political power in the Trịnh clan continues after the death of Lord Trịnh Sâm in this sequel of "Night of Long Tri." The rivals are two famous concubines of Trịnh Sâm: Dương Thị Ngọc Hoan and Đặng Thị Huệ.
Ephemeral Fate
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Love on the Verge of Ruin
The young & poor struggle to get by in the big city.
Narrow Alley
A petty criminal plans to take revenge on the neighbour who he believes to have reported him to the police.
The Neighbor's Son
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
The main character in the film is a real person in history - the hero of the Vietnamese people's army, Cu Chinh Lan, set in the middle of the resistance war against the French (circa 1951) on the battlefield in North Vietnam.
The Young Soldier
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Tropical Sunset
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