Huy Thành
Directing
Biography
Huy Thành (full name Nguyễn Huy Thành, b. February 20, 1928 – May 22, 2018) was a Vietnamese screenwriter, film director, former Vice Chairman of the Vietnam Cinema Association and former Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City Cinema Association. Considered one of the greatest directors of Vietnamese revolutionary cinema, he was awarded the title of People's Artist by the Vietnamese government in 1993 and the State Prize in 2007. He belonged to the first directing class (1959) of the Vietnam Film School. In 1964, Huy Thành collaborated with People's Artist Trần Vũ to make the film "Floating Village" (Làng Nổi), which officially premiered in Vietnam in 1965 and was later shown in Soviet theaters under the name "Добрый дракон". In 1966, Huy Thành directed "Rising Storm" (Nổi gió), adapted from the play of the same name by author Đào Hồng Cẩm. "Rising Storm" became the first film of Vietnamese revolutionary cinema set in the South, winning the director the Golden Lotus Award at the 1st Vietnam Film Festival in 1970, and marking an important milestone in the lead actor Thế Anh's career. In 1970, Huy Thành wrote and directed his first independent film "Coal Season" (Mùa than), telling a story about life in dangerous coal mines during the war. In 1975, he made "Sky Zone" (Vùng trời) with great support from the Air Defense - Air Force regarding action scenes. In 1977, Huy Thành moved to South Vietnam and started working at the Ho Chi Minh City Television Film Studio. He directed several other films such as "Back to the Land of Wind and Sand" (Về nơi gió cát, 1981); "Near and Far" (Xa và gần, 1984); "Behind the War" (Phía sau cuộc chiến, 1990); etc. Since 2000, Huy Thành started working in other aspects of filmmaking other than directing. He passed away suddenly during a trip to visit his daughter in France in 2018, aged 90.
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Heroes of the Tay Son Dynasty
Two pilots and their beloveds, all of whom are close friends, try to navigate their lives separate from one another as the men transition to combat.
Patch of Sky
After the war ends, Luy returns home and is now assigned as Commune Secretary of his coastal village. However, his wife is now wedded to Son, a soldier of the formerRepublic of Vietnam regime.
Back to the Sand Village
While being imprisoned on a remote island for leading a naval-yard workers' strike, a man reminisces about his former days as a naval mechanic and the life back in his hometown.
The Rooster’s Crow at Noon
Phương and his sister Vân reunite after years of separation in the war, but their clashing political affiliations soon set them apart.
Rising Storm
A police officer receives a worn-out and traumatised woman who begs him to take actions against a ruthless man that ruined her life, and only gives his moniker, Tín Mã Nàm, meaning “crazy horse” in Cantonese. As the officer sets out to search for Tín Mã Nàm, a network of intricate crimes, espionage and bloody murders beyond his imagination begins to unfold.
The Secrets Beneath
The inhabitants of a small island in the delta of the turbulent Red River are doomed to poverty: floods wash away crops, livestock, and even people. From generation to generation, a legend is passed down about a kind dragon that can drink the river's water and save the village. But the dragon is a fairy tale, and the people have decided to block the treacherous river themselves. With extraordinary perseverance, fighting against the elements, the village population builds protective fortifications around the island.
Floating Village
A young cadre of the state is in the board of a re-education programme for bourgeoisies, but the object of its "rehabilitation" turns out to be her mother-in-law who moved South after 1954.
Near and Far
A poetic glimpse of life in Vietnam War
Until When?
A woman manages to escape from the Khmer Rouge labour camp. Saved from drowning in river by a group of Vietnamese soldiers, she decided to join them.
There are People in this City
A young couple, whose love blooms from their mutual appreciation of Chingiz Aitmatov's "Tales of the Mountains and the Steppes", struggles with their personal romanticism and faith in each other as the novel becomes subjected to a new era's changing ideas about art.
There's a Love Like That
During the American bombings in 1972, a group of workers remain to protect a power plant in the north of Hanoi.
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