Directing
Nguyễn Khánh Dư
Born — Died
1933-09-02 — 2007-12-03
Place of birth
Cao Bằng, French Indochina [now Vietnam]
Known for
Directing
Credits
13 titles
Nguyễn Khánh Dư (September 2, 1933 – December 3, 2007) was a Vietnamese director and cinematographer. A war photographer for an information bureau during the 1st Indochina War, he began working as a documentary cinematographer in 1955. In 1959, he joined Vietnam Feature Film Studio and had his first feature film credit in Phạm Văn Khoa’s “Vườn cam”[Orange Garden] (1960). Despite lacking in professional training, Khánh Dư was widely regarded as one of the most influential cinematographers in early Vietnamese cinema. He worked on films such as "Chị Tư Hậu" [Mrs. Tu Hau] (1962) and "Biển lửa" [Sea of Fire] (1965) by Phạm Kỳ Nam, and won Best Cinematography at the 4th Vietnam Film Festival for …
Known for
NRUnable to bear the turbulent divorce of his parents, a young boy runs away and joins a gang of bandits.
Road Dust
1992
7.0A mother of five in the Mekong Delta leaves her ten year-old to look after the younger children while she goes to fight in the war.
While Mother Is Away
1980
NRWhile awaiting the return of her husband from the war, a woman is brutally raped and becomes pregnant. Inconsolable, she grows increasingly tormented.
Sand Cactus
1985
NRA platoon loses contact with their commanders and finds themselves stuck in the vast forests with no way out. Plagued by despair and the constant sightings of their fallen comrades, the soldiers begin to succumb to ill health and madness.
No Horizon To Be Seen
1986
NROld fisherman Dã Tràng and his wife lives in a coastal village. One day, a snake saved by Dã Tràng gifts him a magical pearl that allows him to hear animals speaking and easily travel into the kingdoms underneath the sea. But his wife has other plans with this pearl..
Dã Tràng Reclaims The East Sea
1982
NRA documentary look into life in Saigon, very soon after April 30, 1975.
The City at Sunrise
1975
Behind the camera
NRUnable to bear the turbulent divorce of his parents, a young boy runs away and joins a gang of bandits.
Road Dust
1992
7.0A mother of five in the Mekong Delta leaves her ten year-old to look after the younger children while she goes to fight in the war.
While Mother Is Away
1980
7.0A mother of five in the Mekong Delta leaves her ten year-old to look after the younger children while she goes to fight in the war.
While Mother Is Away
1980
NRWhile awaiting the return of her husband from the war, a woman is brutally raped and becomes pregnant. Inconsolable, she grows increasingly tormented.
Sand Cactus
1985
NRWhile awaiting the return of her husband from the war, a woman is brutally raped and becomes pregnant. Inconsolable, she grows increasingly tormented.
Sand Cactus
1985
NRA platoon loses contact with their commanders and finds themselves stuck in the vast forests with no way out. Plagued by despair and the constant sightings of their fallen comrades, the soldiers begin to succumb to ill health and madness.
No Horizon To Be Seen
1986
NROld fisherman Dã Tràng and his wife lives in a coastal village. One day, a snake saved by Dã Tràng gifts him a magical pearl that allows him to hear animals speaking and easily travel into the kingdoms underneath the sea. But his wife has other plans with this pearl..
Dã Tràng Reclaims The East Sea
1982
NRA documentary look into life in Saigon, very soon after April 30, 1975.
The City at Sunrise
1975
The prestigious scholar Chu Van An resigns from his royal duties and returns to his small village, teaching children day by day. Among those who study with him is a strange boy with mysterious origins. One day, a prolonged drought happens, leading to a famine and the deaths of villagers.
My Student is a Water God
1990
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Birds Return
1984
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Foster Child
1977
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Skylark in the City
1983
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Kids
1991