Tất Bình

Acting

Tất Bình

Born 1949-08-16 · Hanoi, Vietnam

Tất Bình (full name Đặng Tất Bình, b. 16 August 1949 in Hanoi) is a Vietnamese actor and director, and the former director of the Feature Film Studio 1. Before starting his career in film, he worked as a theater actor and a voice actor. Tất Bình began gaining recognition through his first role onscreen, as inspector Phương in the film "The Last Hope" (Hy vọng cuối cùng, d. Trần Phương, 1981). He later co-directed with Trần Phương in the film "One Who Looks for a Forgotten past" (Người đi tìm dĩ vãng, 1992); then went on to direct the TV feature "The Notebook of Life" (Cuốn sổ ghi đời, 1994). In 1998, he made "Moon on Foreign Land" (Trăng trên đất khách), a Vietnamese-Russian co-production and the first Vietnamese film to focus on people working and living far from their home country. In 2002, Tất Bình released "The Backstage Slap" (Cái tát sau cánh gà), which became one of the two Vietnamese entries into the 47th Asia-Pacific Film Festival. He continues to act and direct in the years following.

Acting credits

Indochine poster
7.0

In colonial Vietnam, dashing French naval captain Jean-Baptiste, wealthy plantation owner Éliane Devries, and her adopted Vietnamese daughter Camillevare form the three points of a cross-cultural romantic triangle. As the struggle against European imperialism sweeps Indochina, Jean-Baptiste and Camille have to choose sides and Éliane faces the emotionally difficult challenge of raising the child of her daughter and ex-lover.

Indochine

1992

The Town Within Reach poster
5.5

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 Town Within Reach

1983

River Of Desire poster
NR

To faces many difficulties working as the director of the A1 hydropower project. Workers do not believe in leadership, so they quit their jobs. To boldly proposes a new way of doing business, paying attention to workers' lives and improving technology. The workers believe in him, returning to the construction site with a new attitude. Han, To's friend reports to the Minister about him with bad intentions, spreading news about his relationship with female engineer Thu Hien. To overcomes those barriers by working hard. The Minister has created all conditions for him to be creative and work.

River Of Desire

1982

Sound Across the Ocean poster
NR

The film recreates the situation as the struggle against French colonialism from 1945 to 1954. Tam is a young woman who plays Vietnamese traditional one-string zither and sings Xam folk songs. After helping a revolutionary soldier, her grandfather is shot dead by the enemy. Tam follows the revolutionary path, taking on the mission to Con Dao Island as a doctor to treat prisoners and work with the revolutionary organization.

Sound Across the Ocean

2026

No artwork available
NR

Melodrama set in South Vietnam in the 1970s. Before liberation, Kha and Hien were in love but prevented from marrying by rigid class distinctions. After the war, Kha returns home with the rank of lieutenant colonel and finds Hien has lost her fortune and her status. Kha decides to protect Hien to repay his ‘debt’ of love to her.

Debt of love

1987

No artwork available
NR

While undertaking secret operations, four undercover agents experience turmoil in their personal relationships.

At The River, White Flowers Flourish

1989

Memories at the Moon Hill poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Memories at the Moon Hill

1989

Our Own Horizon poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Our Own Horizon

1983

The White Silk Dress poster
6.3

A family living in poverty faces financial difficulties while striving to educate their daughters. The mother resorts to extraordinary measures to procure the traditional silk dresses needed for her kids to attend school.

The White Silk Dress

2007

No artwork available
NR

The movie is about the relationship between Vietnam and Laos in war. A soldier named Tam wanted to build a bridge to transport ammo, weapons and food to the battle. But the enemy found out and bombed it. Tam later comes up with the idea of using elephant to build a bridge. 30 years later, Tam's son returns to where his father used the elephants to build and finishes what he started.

The Elephant Bridge

Money, Money! poster
NR

Returning to Vietnam after many years of studying abroad, a doctorate in atomic force Thai Duong entered an unimaginable reality. Many funny situations took place in his family when he was pondering over choosing a job in a new environment. Thai Duong was tricked into losing money, and his father and brother Loc Ton performed a risky mission to earn money: buying liquidated bombs.

Money, Money!

1989

Brothers poster
NR

A soldier (Hien) survives the war and comes back to live with his brother's family (Tien). He can't seem to adjust to civilian life after the war and feels increasingly alienated from other people, whom he finds calculating, selfish and materialistic.

Brothers

1986

The Last Hope poster
NR

In early-80s' Hanoi, a director of a state-owned factory welcomes his wife, a journalist, into a changed home after she spent some time away. As she struggles to make sense of their new wealth, he struggles to avoid embezzlement charges by a poor inspector—who turns out to be an old friend of hers.

The Last Hope

1981

We Break Up In Summer poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

We Break Up In Summer

1982

Traps poster
4.5

The year is 1950 and an English couple, Louise and Michael, have arrived in French-occupied Indochina to cover a story on a French-owned rubber plantation. They are to be the guests of the enigmatic plantation overseer, Daniel, and his beautiful yet difficult daughter Viola, at their elegant, decaying villa amid a tropical jungle. Michael and Louise hope that some time spent working in an exotic location will help reignite the passion in their floundering marriage. Instead they become unwittingly involved in the personal, sexual and political tensions of their hosts. Daniel is desperate to hold onto a way of life no longer possible in a country struggling for independence, bringing him into conflict with not only his daughter but also with his adopted country.

Traps

1994

Nostalgia for the Countryside poster
5.5

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.

Nostalgia for the Countryside

1997

Do You Still Remember, or Have You Forgotten ? poster
NR

A South Vietnamese soldier deserts the army and comes back to find his girlfriend, only to find out she has moved to Saigon. Dejected, he leaves to seek hiding in Da Lat, where he befriends an amateur singer with a special voice.

Do You Still Remember, or Have You Forgotten ?

1992

To Catch A Thief 2: The Woman In Nun's Habit poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

To Catch A Thief 2: The Woman In Nun's Habit

1988

Lady of the Flowers poster
NR

In early 20th century, a Vietnamese aristocratic socialite falls in love with a poor scholar though her father, a powerful governor, is determined to separate them, even with extreme measures.

Lady of the Flowers

1989

Love and Distance poster
NR

A young wife awaits the return of her husband from the war. But when he arrives, mutilated and sick, she is repulsed.

Love and Distance

1984

Behind the camera

It Seems Our Love Has Faded poster
NR

At the behest of her ailing father, a woman reluctantly tries to forget the lover she has been awaiting for years.

It Seems Our Love Has Faded

1992

The Story of Pao poster
7.5

Set in a breath-taking primitive landscape in the mountainous provinces of Vietnam, the film tells the story of a Hmong tribe girl named Pao. She was raised by her stepmother, for her real mother left her when she was little. One day, her stepmother dies in an accident, and she begins to track down her birth mother. But her journey turns out to disclose an unsealed sentimental drama of the family in the past.

The Story of Pao

2006

Adrift poster
5.8

Soon after her wedding, newlywed Duyen's excitement begins to fade as she realizes her young husband is not only naive but overly occupied by his job and doting mother. As her marriage goes unconsummated and her emotional isolation grows, she reaches out to her closest girlfriend, Cam, who secretly desires her, but pushes her into the arms of a dangerous and provocative suitor. The resulting infidelity puts Duyen in a precarious love triangle, challenging her notions of conventional relationships and also the stability of her new family.

Adrift

2009

Remainder of the Laughing Forest poster
NR

Amidst the forest of Trường Sơn mountains, Thảo and four other girls are assigned to guard a major supply depot on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. As the war progresses and their health deteriorates, the girls begin to suffer from hysteric episodes where they become manic and laugh uncontrollably.

Remainder of the Laughing Forest

1991

The Backstage Slap poster
NR

A theater troupe reunites in excitement for a new production after having been out of work for a long time, with the performers and their mentor having gone their separate ways to make ends meet. But the bitter fallout from the failed romance between the lead actor and the lead actress—a romance as long ago as her famously beautiful hair—threatens the play's success.

The Backstage Slap

2002

The Moon in the Foreign Land poster
NR

In 1993, a ballet dancer, whose marriage is suffering from the recent death of her daughter and financial difficulties, leaves for Russia with her friends to find work to support her husband as well as artistic passion.

The Moon in the Foreign Land

2007

In Search of a Bygone Time poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

In Search of a Bygone Time

1992