Đức Hoàn

Directing

Đức Hoàn

Born — Died

1937-01-02 — 2003-04-02

Place of birth

Hanoi, Vietnam

Known for

Directing

Credits

18 titles

Merited Artist Nguyễn Thị Đức Hoàn (1937 - 2003) was a Vietnamese film director, screenwriter and actress. One of the very first female directors in Vietnamese cinema, and the second after Bạch Diệp to garner significant commercial and critical success, she was initially discovered by Phạm Trọng Quỳ at the age of 17 while working as a Chinese interpreter. Advised by the veteran cinematographer to go into acting, she took up a training course at the National Theatre under the guidance of Soviet director Anatoly Vasiliev and later joined the Studio as a voice actor specialising in foreign movies dubs. In 1961, she was chosen for the role of Mị in "Vợ chồng A Phủ" by director Mai Lộc. The per…

Known for

Film credits

1960s · 4 titles

Behind the camera

Obsession poster
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During the war, a woman learns that her husband is an army deserter.

Obsession

1988

Obsession poster
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During the war, a woman learns that her husband is an army deserter.

Obsession

1988

From The Same Forests poster
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Two classmates volunteer to work in logistics across the forests of Trường Sơn mountains.

From The Same Forests

1978

From The Same Forests poster
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Two classmates volunteer to work in logistics across the forests of Trường Sơn mountains.

From The Same Forests

1978

Nesting Season in Hanoi poster
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Hanoi of 1978, milkwood pine flowers in autumn, and the anxiety of idealistic youths navigating postwar life. A young couple struggle to be together as individual happiness gets in the way.

Nesting Season in Hanoi

1978

Nesting Season in Hanoi poster
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Hanoi of 1978, milkwood pine flowers in autumn, and the anxiety of idealistic youths navigating postwar life. A young couple struggle to be together as individual happiness gets in the way.

Nesting Season in Hanoi

1978

Love and Distance poster
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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

Tempestuous Fate poster
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After a streak of betrayals in love, a scholar harbours a disdain for women and vows to stay away from their “venomous nature”. However, he soon grows increasingly obsessed with a prostitute he encountered one night, and falls deeply in love with her against the prejudices of his social class.

Tempestuous Fate

1989

A Visitor from the Countryside poster
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A woman running from her past meets a poor farmer who offers to marry her and raise her newborn as his own. After marrying they struggle to make a happy life together as their family grows and the war rages around them.

A Visitor from the Countryside

1993

A Visitor from the Countryside poster
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A woman running from her past meets a poor farmer who offers to marry her and raise her newborn as his own. After marrying they struggle to make a happy life together as their family grows and the war rages around them.

A Visitor from the Countryside

1993