
Phạm Nguyên Cẩn
Art
Biography
Phạm Nguyên Cẩn (b. Hải Dương province, 5/2/1947 - 11/15/2012) was a Vietnamese painter. He was as an art director and production designer for many Vietnamese films, and worked the Giải Phóng (Liberation) Film Studio from 1981 until his retirement in 2007.
Known For

Follows a young cyclo driver on his poverty-driven descent into criminality in modern-day Ho Chi Minh City. The boy's struggles to scratch out a living for his two sisters and grandfather in the mean streets of the city lead to petty crime on behalf of a mysterious Madame from whom he rents his cyclo.
Cyclo
At the wedding of his rich friend, a man meets a charming and stylish woman who's known in Saigon high society as the daughter of an influential minister.
The Minister's Daughter

In 1981, six years after the withdrawal of US troops from Vietnam, Tan, a young former Vietcong officer, goes to take the ashes of his dead comrade, Thai, to his family in a remote area. On the overcrowded train out of Ho Chi Min City, he meets Mien, a former soldier and witness to Thai's death.
The Long Journey

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

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Tây Sơn Knight

A hard up historian lives happily with his newly-wed wife and her child from her previous husband. But as he becomes more successful and financially stable, the family relationships begin to fracture.
Pale Farewell

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

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The Golden Key

A singer begins a love triangle with an actress and a bar girl.
Street Cinderella

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Peace at the Execution Site

When the owner of a coconut-making business suddenly passes away, his young heiress Sáu Mân takes over estate and marries its chief craftsman to oblige her father’s will. Once a young, unburdened schoolgirl, Sáu Mân now carries the fate of the workers and the business in her estate, while still having to shoulder the childrearing duties.