Directing

Dang Nhat Minh

Born May 11, 1938 · Huế, Vietnam (age 88)

Đặng Nhật Minh (b. Huế, Vietnam, 1938) is one of Vietnam's foremost film directors and a screenwriter. Đặng's first work in film was translating Russian films made in the USSR to Vietnamese. When his dad died during the Vietnam War in 1967, he was given party-related career favours which, combined with his own learnings, allowed him to become a director. His first film, made in 1965, was a documen…

Known For

The Town Within Reach

The Town Within Reach · 1983

The Town Within Reach

At the close of the Sino-Vietnamese border war, a journalist travels to Lạng Sơn in northern Vietnam—the hometown of his former girlfriend—to report on the situation there.

The Girl on the River

The Girl on the River · 1987

The Girl on the River

A reporter interviews a former prostitute from South Vietnam about her sheltering of an injured Vietcong leader during the war.

The Quiet American

The Quiet American · 2002

The Quiet American

MovieRomanceThriller

Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a naïve U.S. official also begins vying for her attention. In retaliation, Fowler informs the communists that the American is selling arms to their enemy.

Jasmine

Jasmine · 2022

Jasmine brings viewers back to Hanoi of the 2010s. It is the life story of a shoe shine boy, a sidewalk barber, an old teacher who teaches singing to a choir of blind students or or a farmer who works as a maid in Hanoi.…. These fragmented lives form a colorful picture of the life of ordinary Hanoians.

Miss Nhung

Miss Nhung · 1970

The film is anchored by a wartime re-encounter between a servant child and a tutor, transformed in the crucible of the spring 1968 Saigon offensive.

The Guava House

The Guava House · 2002

The Guava House

A mentally challenged man spends his days working as an artist's model and visiting the now-occupied house of his childhood, where his beloved guava tree sits.

When the Tenth Month Comes

When the Tenth Month Comes · 1984

When the Tenth Month Comes

In the final days of the war, Duyên faces a daily struggle to take care of her young son and ailing father-in-law, all the while hiding from them the fact that her husband has recently been killed in battle.

Those Faces in May

Those Faces in May · 1975

Those Faces in May

MovieDocumentary

Documentary about Vietnam after the liberation of Saigon.

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The Town Within Reach

The Town Within Reach · 1983

The Town Within Reach

At the close of the Sino-Vietnamese border war, a journalist travels to Lạng Sơn in northern Vietnam—the hometown of his former girlfriend—to report on the situation there.

Writer

The Girl on the River

The Girl on the River · 1987

The Girl on the River

A reporter interviews a former prostitute from South Vietnam about her sheltering of an injured Vietcong leader during the war.

Director

The Quiet American

The Quiet American · 2002

The Quiet American

MovieRomanceThriller

Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a naïve U.S. official also begins vying for her attention. In retaliation, Fowler informs the communists that the American is selling arms to their enemy.

Second Unit Director

Jasmine

Jasmine · 2022

Jasmine brings viewers back to Hanoi of the 2010s. It is the life story of a shoe shine boy, a sidewalk barber, an old teacher who teaches singing to a choir of blind students or or a farmer who works as a maid in Hanoi.…. These fragmented lives form a colorful picture of the life of ordinary Hanoians.

Screenplay

Miss Nhung

Miss Nhung · 1970

The film is anchored by a wartime re-encounter between a servant child and a tutor, transformed in the crucible of the spring 1968 Saigon offensive.

Director

The Guava House

The Guava House · 2002

The Guava House

A mentally challenged man spends his days working as an artist's model and visiting the now-occupied house of his childhood, where his beloved guava tree sits.

Director

When the Tenth Month Comes

When the Tenth Month Comes · 1984

When the Tenth Month Comes

In the final days of the war, Duyên faces a daily struggle to take care of her young son and ailing father-in-law, all the while hiding from them the fact that her husband has recently been killed in battle.

Director

Those Faces in May

Those Faces in May · 1975

Those Faces in May

MovieDocumentary

Documentary about Vietnam after the liberation of Saigon.

Director

The Return

The Return · 1994

In the years following the American war a young woman from Hanoi teaches in a rural school in the south. There she meets a troubled young man, and they have a brief romance that she recalls wistfully years later in her unhappy marriage.

Director

Don't Burn

Don't Burn · 2009

MovieHistoryDrama

In the spring of 2005, a mother living in Hanoi receives a diary of her late daughter, a young doctor working at a field hospital during the war. Kept for over thirty years by an American veteran, the diary is an account of her life spanning two years, from April 1968 until her death in June 1970.

Director

Stars on the Sea

Stars on the Sea · 1973

Stars on the Sea

A young man, recently returned from study abroad, accompanies his father on a ship bringing food and weapons to South Vietnam.

Director

Hanoi: Winter of '46

Hanoi: Winter of '46 · 1999

Hanoi: Winter of '46

MovieHistoryWar

Toward the end of 1946, residents from all walks of Hanoi struggle to avoid—and eventually accept—the possibility of a full-blown war.

Director

Nostalgia for the Countryside

Nostalgia for the Countryside · 1997

Nostalgia for the Countryside

MovieDramaRomance

The dynamics of a Vietnamese rural village change when an urban woman returns to the village she originally belonged to and begins a love triangle.

Director