
Hoàng Tích Chỉ
Writing
Biography
Hoàng Tích Chỉ (b. Bắc Ninh province, 9/1/1932 - 3/20/2022) was a Vietnamese screenwriter, best known for his collaborations with director Hải Ninh during the era of revolutionary cinema. He was the first screenwriter to receive the Ho Chi Minh Award for Literature and the Arts in 2012.
Known For

Following the introduction of Đổi mới, soldiers and military personnel return to their assigned homes in a corner of Hanoi, struggling to integrate into civilian life and making ends meet amidst the changing economic era.
Hanoians

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

After the dangerous offensive launched on the embassy office in Saigon, Tư Chung and his comrades have to find ways to adapt to rising suspicions from the CIA advisors, as well as dealing with violent repercussions involving someone very dear to him. The third part of a series based on a real-life organization involved in intelligence activities in South Vietnam before 1975.
Saigon Rangers: Thunderstorm

Student Ba Duy sinks deep into heartbreak and a nihilistic street life when his sweetheart, Diem Huong, suddenly leaves him to marry an American diplomat.
First Love

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 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 year 1968 approaches. Bubbling underneath festive spirits are quiet anticipations of a major escalation of conflict, alongside exciting dreams of a brighter future...that seems so close and yet somehow far away. Tư Chung, tasked with overseeing the joint offensive on supreme headquarters in Saigon at the first moment of the lunar year, prepares himself for the most beautiful and painful of hopes. The final part of a series based on a real-life organization involved in intelligence activities in South Vietnam before 1975.
Saigon Rangers: Return You Your Name

A mother of five in the Mekong Delta leaves her ten year-old to look after the younger children while she goes to fight in the war.
While Mother Is Away

The story of a group of Soviet sailors aboard the freighter Chelyabinsk who aid their Vietnamese comrades after their ship is sunk during the Vietnam War.
Coordinates of Death

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Birds Return

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 woman running from her past meets a poor farmer who offers to marry her and raise her newborn as his own. After marrying they struggle to make a happy life together as their family grows and the war rages around them.
A Visitor from the Countryside

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We Break Up In Summer

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

Two North Vietnamese soldiers are assigned to guard the entry gate at the 17th parallel demilitarised zone, and quickly acquaint themselves with the other side’s chief guard.
At the 17th Parallel

Follows a South Vietnamese soldier during the fall of Saigon in 1975.
Punishment

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Memories at the Moon Hill

A documentary look into life in Saigon, very soon after April 30, 1975.
The City at Sunrise

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The Sea Calls

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