Directing
Bạch Diệp
Place of birth
Hanoï, French Indochina [now Vietnam]
Known for
Directing
Credits
18 titles
People’s Artist Bạch Diệp (1929 - 17/8/2013) was a Vietnamese film director and screenwriter. She was considered one of the most influential directors in early Vietnamese cinema, and also its very first female director. Born into a well-off Catholic family in Hanoi, Bạch Diệp first began her career as a journalist for Nhân Dân newspaper. In 1959, she applied for the government’s training course on film directing (the only woman to do so) and started working for Vietnam Feature Film Studio after her graduation in 1963. Bạch Diệp’s debut feature “Trần Quốc Toản ra quân”(1971) was an immediate hit; the film clinched the highest accolade at that year’s Vietnam Film Festival. Her works in the su…
Known for
NRDischarged from the Army after losing an arm in the battlefield, Lê Vân returns home. He seeks to help rebuild it, but realises that a life spent fighting has made him disconnected from the villagers and their ideas.
Return to the Sedge Fields
1973
No synopsis available yet.
Unspeakable
1979
NRAt a maternity ward in South Vietnam, a midwife adopts three orphaned children after their mothers, undercover Communist spies, go missing or die in action.
The Legend of the Mother
1987
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Y H’Nua
1979
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Story of the Coconut Village
1977
NRThe young & poor struggle to get by in the big city.
Narrow Alley
1988
Behind the camera
NRDischarged from the Army after losing an arm in the battlefield, Lê Vân returns home. He seeks to help rebuild it, but realises that a life spent fighting has made him disconnected from the villagers and their ideas.
Return to the Sedge Fields
1973
No synopsis available yet.
Unspeakable
1979
No synopsis available yet.
Unspeakable
1979
NRAt a maternity ward in South Vietnam, a midwife adopts three orphaned children after their mothers, undercover Communist spies, go missing or die in action.
The Legend of the Mother
1987
NRAt a maternity ward in South Vietnam, a midwife adopts three orphaned children after their mothers, undercover Communist spies, go missing or die in action.
The Legend of the Mother
1987
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Y H’Nua
1979
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Y H’Nua
1979
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Story of the Coconut Village
1977
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Story of the Coconut Village
1977
NRThe young & poor struggle to get by in the big city.
Narrow Alley
1988
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Who’s To Love, Who’s To Blame
1982
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Who’s To Love, Who’s To Blame
1982
NRFollows a South Vietnamese soldier during the fall of Saigon in 1975.
Punishment
1984
NRA story about a Catholic Village by the sea in Northern Vietnam in the early 60's, where people lacked faith in the new Communist regime.
The Holy Day
1976
NRA story about a Catholic Village by the sea in Northern Vietnam in the early 60's, where people lacked faith in the new Communist regime.
The Holy Day
1976
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Our Own Horizon
1983
NRThe director of a steel refinery comes into conflict with his wife over plans that might affect her father's reputation.
Unintended Separation
1986
NRWhen Kublai Khan threatens to invade Vietnam, the young prince Trần Quốc Toản pleads to fight but is dismissed by the generals due to his age. Undeterred, he decides to gather his own army. A theatre production of the famous chèo play to be filmed for screenings in 1970s Vietnam.
Trần Quốc Toản Goes To The Frontlines
1971