Bạch Diệp
Directing
Biography
People’s Artist Bạch Diệp (1929 - 17/8/2013) was a Vietnamese film director and screenwriter. She was considered one of the most influential directors in early Vietnamese cinema, and also its very first female director. Born into a well-off Catholic family in Hanoi, Bạch Diệp first began her career as a journalist for Nhân Dân newspaper. In 1959, she applied for the government’s training course on film directing (the only woman to do so) and started working for Vietnam Feature Film Studio after her graduation in 1963. Bạch Diệp’s debut feature “Trần Quốc Toản ra quân”(1971) was an immediate hit; the film clinched the highest accolade at that year’s Vietnam Film Festival. Her works in the subsequent years were also critical successes and universally lauded by the public, especially “Ngày Lễ Thánh” and “Huyền thoại người mẹ”; each film earned a Golden Lotus award, and regarded as hallmarks of 20th century Vietnamese cinema. In addition to her contributions to cinema, Bạch Diệp was also renowned for being an artistic muse to composer Tử Phác, and the only wife of the famous poet Xuân Diệu.
Known For
Vietnam, 1954. An American reporter finds himself in the middle of the battle of Điện Biên Phủ, between the French army and the Vietminh.
Diên Biên Phu
When Kublai Khan threatens to invade Vietnam, the young prince Trần Quốc Toản pleads to fight but is dismissed by the generals due to his age. Undeterred, he decides to gather his own army. A theatre production of the famous chèo play to be filmed for screenings in 1970s Vietnam.
Trần Quốc Toản Goes To The Frontlines
The director of a steel refinery comes into conflict with his wife over plans that might affect her father's reputation.
Unintended Separation
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
The dynamics between two long-time best friends change when one starts working as the other's subordinate and becomes inflicted in his workplace power battles.
Seek No Fortune
A government minister from Hanoi has a car accident on the way to a wedding in a remote village. The county hospital does not have the authority to operate on a minister. The county commissioner would like the operation done in the county for the prestige it would bring, but will not authorize it without the approval of the whole county committee. The hospital director has filled his quota, so does not want to take the risk of an operation. Since a telephone call to Hanoi has to be booked two days in advance, the minister's wife cannot be contacted, nor can a helicopter be arranged to move the minister to Hanoi.
A Quiet Little Town
The young & poor struggle to get by in the big city.
Narrow Alley
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Story of the Coconut Village
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Who’s To Love, Who’s To Blame
Follows a South Vietnamese soldier during the fall of Saigon in 1975.
Punishment
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Our Own Horizon
Discharged from the Army after losing an arm in the battlefield, Lê Vân returns home. He seeks to help rebuild it, but realises that a life spent fighting has made him disconnected from the villagers and their ideas.
Return to the Sedge Fields
At a maternity ward in South Vietnam, a midwife adopts three orphaned children after their mothers, undercover Communist spies, go missing or die in action.
The Legend of the Mother
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