Thụy Vân
Acting
Biography
Thụy Vân (May 2, 1940 – March 16, 2023) was a Vietnamese actress and director, best known for her role in "Rising Storm" (Nổi gió, d. Huy Thành & Lê Huyến, 1966). In 1959, she attended the first acting class of the Academy of Theater and Cinema, alongside other actors of her generation: Trà Giang, Lâm Tới, Trần Phương. In 1966, she starred in "Rising Storm", which won the Golden Lotus Award at the 1st Vietnam Film Festival in 1970. Afterwards, Thụy Vân continued to act in films such as "17th Parallel, Days and Nights" (Vĩ tuyến 17 ngày và đêm, d. Hải Ninh, 1972) and "August Star" (Sao tháng Tám, d. Trần Đắc, 1876). "The Black Tornado" (Cơn lốc đen), a film she directed, won the Special Prize at the 8th Vietnam Film Festival in 1988.
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
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
Phương and his sister Vân reunite after years of separation in the war, but their clashing political affiliations soon set them apart.
Rising Storm
The story of liberation of Saigon by People's Army of Vietnam and National Liberation Front of South Vietnam on 30 April 1975.
Liberation of Saigon
The plot of the film revolves around revolutionary soldiers who come from different classes, but all share the same patriotism. They had to overcome many life-and-death challenges and enormous adversities in order to mobilise the masses to prepare for an uprising and seize power from the Japanese fascists, in a situation where the country fell into the tragedy of famine.
August Star
Upon meeting a young Vietnamese soldier during his brief stay in the Lao mountains, a woman begins recalling to her daughter episodes of her life ever since she had to leave Northwest Vietnam in 1952, including her fateful encounter with a Lao mother.
Two Mothers
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
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The Foster Child
The story about a group of people struggling to expand agricultural land in North Vietnam.