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Nguyễn Thanh Vân

Nguyễn Thanh Vân

Directing

Biography

Nguyễn Thanh Vân is a Vietnamese director. Born in Hanoi in a family of Thanh Hoá origin, he's the son of film director Nguyễn Hải Ninh. At the age of 10, he followed his father to the set of a movie, and later, while waiting for his college entrance exam results, was sent to southern Vietnam with director Nguyễn Khánh Dư and entrusted as location assistant. He made his directorial debut in 1992 with "Chuyện tình trong ngõ hẹp"

Known For

Happy Memories
N/A

A competition about nostalgia, going through different types of arts and performances of Vietnam through the decades.

Happy Memories

2018
The Somnambulist Woman
N/A

A young woman struggles to move on from the consuming grief of her experience as a combat medic in the Trường Sơn mountains during Vietnam War .

The Somnambulist Woman

2003
Red Rain
8.0

The valorous story of a battalion at the 1972 Second Battle of Quảng Trị, and the high-stakes negotiations leading to the Paris Peace Accords in 1973.

Red Rain

2025
Precious Little Hearts
N/A

In hopes of getting her family out of poverty, 17-year-old Mai follows a neighbour's offer and leaves her small fishing village in Central Vietnam to work as a seamstress in Saigon, not knowing her neighbour had sold her into prostitution, and a grisly fate awaits her upon arrival.

Precious Little Hearts

2007
The Deserted Valley
5.5

Three teachers run together an elementary school for local Hmong children in a remote mountain village. One day, an incident turns their life upside down, revealing the secrets and feelings they have been hiding for a long time.

The Deserted Valley

2002
The General Retires
7.5

A general who devoted his life to the communist cause, retires, only to find that his household is in disarray, his grown children money-grubbing, and Vietnamese society far from the rosy picture of equality he'd imagined he'd helped make it.

The General Retires

1988
Broken Space
N/A

While still heartbroken after her new boyfriend leaves to marry another woman, Đan Linh gets into a serious car accident and is rushed to the hospital where she is treated by Phan, a distant and grumpy surgeon. Despite significant initial distaste from both sides, the pair soon grow a profound appreciation for each other's wisdom and bond over their shared experience of family turbulence.

Broken Space

1998
A Nameless Eucalyptus
N/A

The forbidden love story between a widower who had lost his son and a woman whose husband's fate on the battlefield during the war against the US imperialist is unknown.

A Nameless Eucalyptus

1996
Aimless
2.0

Leaving their village to earn a living in the big city, Tham and Quy's relationship soon suffers in the face of impoverished conditions.

Aimless

2013
Love in the Alley
N/A

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

1992
Lives in the Sands
8.0

For twenty years, Canh has lived in North Vietnam, unable to return to his home in the south where his wife is waiting for him. She is happy to reunite with her husband until she learns that he has married a young woman in the north and has a child by her. The love triangle becomes more complicated.

Lives in the Sands

1999
The Mother's Soul
1.0

Thu lives in a village near the river with Lan, her single mother working as a fruit seller. Thu befriends a boy in the village, Đăng, who lost his mother at a young age and is thus mainly raised by his grandparents. As the two children bond, they find in each other the parental figures they have been longing for.

The Mother's Soul

2011
Ephemeral Fate
N/A

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

1990
Red Dawn
N/A

After the Tet Offensive of 1968, the Command of Group 559 assigned Transport Stations 9 and 12 to urgently recruit young female volunteers for training as truck drivers to supply the battlefield. The story follows four women—Chau, Han, Sa, and Thuong—who drive from Ben Thuy to the Western Truong Son. During their missions, the sacrifices of Han, Thuong, Sa, and Chau’s brother leave her with deep sorrow. Yet, with determination and strength, Chau continues to the battlefield to fulfill her duty.

Red Dawn

2022
The Usual Lesson
N/A

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The Usual Lesson

1984