Việt Linh

Directing

Việt Linh

Born

1952-12-03 (73)

Place of birth

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Known for

Directing

Credits

11 titles

Việt Linh (b. Nguyễn Việt Linh in Ho Chi Minh City, 1952) is a prominent Vietnamese film director. She currently lives and works in Paris, France. Her films have been shown in Vietnam, France, the United States and Australia. Việt Linh crafts allegorical films about the history and changing social situations of her country. Often drawing inspiration from literature, Việt Linh treats the fate of her characters in a sensitive and realistic manner. Between 1980 and 1985, she studied at the VGIK in the former Soviet Union, graduating in 1985. She then began working for Vietnam's state-owned Giải Phóng Film Studio in Ho Chi Minh City. She has completed seven feature films since 1986 and is curren…

Known for

Travelling Circus poster
7.4

A small traveling circus from Hanoi arrives at a village struck down by famine, trying to sell magic and dreams.

Travelling Circus

1988

Yellow Flowers On the Green Grass poster
6.9

After and act of violence leaves his brother Tuong paralyzed, Thieu discovers the true meaning of brotherhood.

Yellow Flowers On the Green Grass

2015

The Birds Sang in a Tranquil Place poster
NR

After the war a young woman from Saigon goes to the countryside at the call of the government to teach love of country to the local people. There she finds that she doesn't really believe in what she teaches, that she's not really interested in the butterflies and birds of the poems she recites and is terribly bored in the countryside.

The Birds Sang in a Tranquil Place

1986

Ở Đây Có Nắng poster
NR

One day, Tung Nhan was shocked to discover that he had an illegitimate son with his ex-lover many years ago. If he admitted the child, he would be involved in a scandal, and his career as a famous TV show MC/director could be ruined. But remembering that he was also an orphan, Tung Nhan decided not to let his son be alone. Unfair things started to happen when father and son reunited...

Ở Đây Có Nắng

2018

Me Thao: The Legendary Age poster
3.8

In early 20th century Vietnam, a nobleman scorns everything Western after his beautiful fiance dies in an auto wreck and forces the poor villagers to destroy all their "modern" possessions. Loosely based on the novel "Chùa Đàn" by Nguyễn Tuân

Me Thao: The Legendary Age

2002

The Trial Needs a Judge poster
NR

No one can understand why a successful and seemingly happily married actress killed herself, but some think that it has to do with what happened to her during the war.

The Trial Needs a Judge

1987

Behind the camera

Travelling Circus poster
7.4

A small traveling circus from Hanoi arrives at a village struck down by famine, trying to sell magic and dreams.

Travelling Circus

1988

Yellow Flowers On the Green Grass poster
6.9

After and act of violence leaves his brother Tuong paralyzed, Thieu discovers the true meaning of brotherhood.

Yellow Flowers On the Green Grass

2015

The Birds Sang in a Tranquil Place poster
NR

After the war a young woman from Saigon goes to the countryside at the call of the government to teach love of country to the local people. There she finds that she doesn't really believe in what she teaches, that she's not really interested in the butterflies and birds of the poems she recites and is terribly bored in the countryside.

The Birds Sang in a Tranquil Place

1986

Ở Đây Có Nắng poster
NR

One day, Tung Nhan was shocked to discover that he had an illegitimate son with his ex-lover many years ago. If he admitted the child, he would be involved in a scandal, and his career as a famous TV show MC/director could be ruined. But remembering that he was also an orphan, Tung Nhan decided not to let his son be alone. Unfair things started to happen when father and son reunited...

Ở Đây Có Nắng

2018

Me Thao: The Legendary Age poster
3.8

In early 20th century Vietnam, a nobleman scorns everything Western after his beautiful fiance dies in an auto wreck and forces the poor villagers to destroy all their "modern" possessions. Loosely based on the novel "Chùa Đàn" by Nguyễn Tuân

Me Thao: The Legendary Age

2002

The Trial Needs a Judge poster
NR

No one can understand why a successful and seemingly happily married actress killed herself, but some think that it has to do with what happened to her during the war.

The Trial Needs a Judge

1987

The Trial Needs a Judge poster
NR

No one can understand why a successful and seemingly happily married actress killed herself, but some think that it has to do with what happened to her during the war.

The Trial Needs a Judge

1987

No artwork available
NR

In a mountainous village, a young girl with a strange birthmark is accused of being the devil incarnate and banished from society.

Devil's Mark

1992

The Bitter Taste of Love poster
8.0

In post-war Vietnam, a talented piano student and doctor in training begin a doomed love affair.

The Bitter Taste of Love

1990

The Building poster
9.0

On May 1, 1975 with Viet Cong troops march through Saigon celebrating their victory. Tham, caretaker of Victory Hotel, a relatively small establishment in downtown Saigon, nervously observes these celebrations. The owners have fled Saigon and the hotel is to be requisitioned by the new government. Tham wonders what his fate will be under the new regime. The next day he is told that that the hotel is to be transformed into a collective flat for the Viet Cong cadre and their families now entering the city. Tham is not hostile to this but is concerned about his place in the new set up. Will he still have a job? Will he be treated as an enemy?

The Building

1999

The Building poster
9.0

On May 1, 1975 with Viet Cong troops march through Saigon celebrating their victory. Tham, caretaker of Victory Hotel, a relatively small establishment in downtown Saigon, nervously observes these celebrations. The owners have fled Saigon and the hotel is to be requisitioned by the new government. Tham wonders what his fate will be under the new regime. The next day he is told that that the hotel is to be transformed into a collective flat for the Viet Cong cadre and their families now entering the city. Tham is not hostile to this but is concerned about his place in the new set up. Will he still have a job? Will he be treated as an enemy?

The Building

1999