Hải Ninh

Directing

Hải Ninh

Born — Died

1931-12-31 — 2013-02-05

Place of birth

Hoằng Hóa District, French Indochina [now Thanh Hóa Province, Vietnam]

Known for

Directing

Credits

18 titles

People's Artist Hải Ninh (b. Nguyễn Hải Ninh, Thanh Hóa province, December 31, 1931 - February 5, 2013) was a Vietnamese director. He was the Director of the Vietnam Feature Film Studio from 1984 to 1994. Starting his career since 1956, he belongs to the first class of the Vietnam Film School and is one of the pioneers who laid the bricks for Vietnamese cinema. After working as an assistant director on the film "An Early Day in Autumn" (Một ngày đầu thu, 1962), he directed "The Young Soldier" (Người chiến sĩ trẻ). After that, he made an unforgettable impression with works such as "O Tham Forest" (Rừng O Thắm), "17th Parallel: Nights and Days" (Vĩ tuyến 17 ngày và đêm), "The Little Girl of H…

Known for

First Love poster
NR

Student Ba Duy sinks deep into heartbreak and a nihilistic street life when his sweetheart, Diem Huong, suddenly leaves him to marry an American diplomat.

First Love

1977

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

The Little Girl of Hanoi poster
7.2

A young girl searches for her father, a soldier in the PAVN, after her mother and sister are killed during Christmas Bombings.

The Little Girl of Hanoi

1974

Ephemeral Fate poster
NR

The battle for political power in the Trịnh clan continues after the death of Lord Trịnh Sâm in this sequel of "Night of Long Tri." The rivals are two famous concubines of Trịnh Sâm: Dương Thị Ngọc Hoan and Đặng Thị Huệ.

Ephemeral Fate

1990

The City at Sunrise poster
NR

A documentary look into life in Saigon, very soon after April 30, 1975.

The City at Sunrise

1975

Night of Long Tri poster
7.0

A thrilling and haunting account of historical events in the Trịnh clan in the late 18th century with the central conflict between lord Trịnh Sâm who was feeble and indecisive, and a cunning and manipulative concubine named Đặng Thị Huệ. Based on the novel of the same name by Nguyễn Huy Tưởng.

Night of Long Tri

1989

Behind the camera

First Love poster
NR

Student Ba Duy sinks deep into heartbreak and a nihilistic street life when his sweetheart, Diem Huong, suddenly leaves him to marry an American diplomat.

First Love

1977

First Love poster
NR

Student Ba Duy sinks deep into heartbreak and a nihilistic street life when his sweetheart, Diem Huong, suddenly leaves him to marry an American diplomat.

First Love

1977

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

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

The Little Girl of Hanoi poster
7.2

A young girl searches for her father, a soldier in the PAVN, after her mother and sister are killed during Christmas Bombings.

The Little Girl of Hanoi

1974

The Little Girl of Hanoi poster
7.2

A young girl searches for her father, a soldier in the PAVN, after her mother and sister are killed during Christmas Bombings.

The Little Girl of Hanoi

1974

Ephemeral Fate poster
NR

The battle for political power in the Trịnh clan continues after the death of Lord Trịnh Sâm in this sequel of "Night of Long Tri." The rivals are two famous concubines of Trịnh Sâm: Dương Thị Ngọc Hoan and Đặng Thị Huệ.

Ephemeral Fate

1990

Ephemeral Fate poster
NR

The battle for political power in the Trịnh clan continues after the death of Lord Trịnh Sâm in this sequel of "Night of Long Tri." The rivals are two famous concubines of Trịnh Sâm: Dương Thị Ngọc Hoan and Đặng Thị Huệ.

Ephemeral Fate

1990

The City at Sunrise poster
NR

A documentary look into life in Saigon, very soon after April 30, 1975.

The City at Sunrise

1975

Night of Long Tri poster
7.0

A thrilling and haunting account of historical events in the Trịnh clan in the late 18th century with the central conflict between lord Trịnh Sâm who was feeble and indecisive, and a cunning and manipulative concubine named Đặng Thị Huệ. Based on the novel of the same name by Nguyễn Huy Tưởng.

Night of Long Tri

1989

The Forests of Miss Thắm poster
NR

A woman volunteers to help the Revolutionaries' trucks hide from bombing raids in Truong Son forests.

The Forests of Miss Thắm

1967

The Forests of Miss Thắm poster
NR

A woman volunteers to help the Revolutionaries' trucks hide from bombing raids in Truong Son forests.

The Forests of Miss Thắm

1967

An Early Autumn Day poster
NR

Duong and Tho are two military intelligence officers tasked with investigating enemy positions. They arrive in a rural area and meet Kien, a guerrilla fighter. Kien's wife, who deeply loves her husband, fears that if he continues his activities, he will be targeted by terrorists, leading to the destruction of their family's happiness. For this reason, she tries to stop her husband and clashes with Tho.

An Early Autumn Day

1962

Swept Away poster
NR

Kiều Trinh, a French-Vietnamese journalist, returns to Vietnam with her husband and daughter to visit his relatives in a seaside town. Here, she meets her husband's uncle, an idiosyncratic neurosurgeon. As the days go by, Kiều Trinh discovers the new mysterious in-law is fascinated with her, and has ulterior plans for her family.

Swept Away

1983

Punishment poster
NR

Follows a South Vietnamese soldier during the fall of Saigon in 1975.

Punishment

1984

Love on the Verge of Ruin poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Love on the Verge of Ruin

1992

The Young Soldier poster
6.0

The main character in the film is a real person in history - the hero of the Vietnamese people's army, Cu Chinh Lan, set in the middle of the resistance war against the French (circa 1951) on the battlefield in North Vietnam.

The Young Soldier

1964

The Consequences of A Love poster
NR

Phụng falls in love with the blind craftsman Hai Cảnh working for her family’s pottery business and marries him. But when she receives her infertility diagnosis, Phụng decides to find another woman who can bear his children.

The Consequences of A Love

1995