Lâm Tới

Acting

Lâm Tới

Born — Died

1937-01-15 — 2000-11-27

Place of birth

Cao Lãnh, Đồng Tháp province, French Indochina [now Vietnam]

Known for

Acting

Credits

17 titles

People's Artist Lâm Tới (1937 - 2000) was a famous Vietnamese actor, also known for his work as a director. His birth name is Lâm Thanh Tòng, born January 15, 1937 in My Hoi village, Cao Lanh district, Sa Dec province (now Dong Thap province). He had a difficult childhood, working as a keeper of rented buffaloes at the age of 7. Between 1949 and 1957, he studied and worked different positions for the armed forces. In August 1959, Lâm entered the first film school in Hanoi. In 1964, graduating with honors, he became an actor in a Vietnamese feature film studio and was chosen to play the role of Kinh in the film Hai người lính (Two Soldiers), which won the Golden Globe Prize in Czechoslovaki…

Known for

Film credits

1970s · 5 titles

Whirlwind Season poster
NR

Nguyễn Hồng Sến's debut feature, based on the novel of the same name by Nguyễn Quang Sáng. Members of the Viet Cong attempt to defend their fellow citizens from being forcefully relocated from their village by a South Vietnamese army officer while at the same time continue with their efforts to win the war in Vietnam.

Whirlwind Season

1978

Wild Field poster
6.5

In Dong Thap Muoi during the days of the Vietnam War, Ba Do, Sau Xoa and their little child live in a small shack in the middle of an abandoned wetland zone. They are entrusted with the mission of maintaining Viet Minh's lines of communication in the area. Daily life goes on as the small family looks out for death from above.

Wild Field

1979

Miss Nhung poster
5.7

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.

Miss Nhung

1970

17th Parallel, Nights and Days poster
8.0

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

1973

Road Back To The Motherland poster
9.0

The sacrifice of a mother to protect the soldiers of Liberation Army of South Vietnam during the war against US imperialism

Road Back To The Motherland

1971

1960s · 7 titles