Acting
Mạnh Linh
Born 1929-04-06 · Bắc Giang province, Vietnam
Mạnh Linh (born 6th April 1929 as Phạm Văn Lạng - ?) is a Vietnamese actor, stage director and former director of Vietnam National Theatre. A renowned stage actor, he had worked in several troupes prior to 1945, upon which he joined the Revolution’s forces and operated the Bac Giang’s People Artistic Troupe. His promotion to the National Theatre in 1948 saw him become a full-time professional actor under the guidance of Thế Lữ, and soon he started starring in the Theatre’s major productions. He briefly worked in the Soviet Union, mostly taking on the lead roles in Leniniana plays by Mikhail Shatrov and Nikolai Pogodin; for his achievements during this stint, Mạnh Linh was awarded the Order of Lenin. Mạnh Linh also enjoyed significant success as a film actor: In 1959, he starred in “Chung một dòng sông”, the first film to be made in North Vietnam post-colonial French era and a hallmark of 1960s Vietnamese revolutionary cinema. His later projects, often with director Hải Ninh, were also critically acclaimed, with the most successful being “Tướng về hưu” (The General Retires) in 1988. The film won the highest award at that year’s Vietnam Film Festival, and Mạnh Linh was awarded the title People’s Artist. In 1996, the actor went on trial on charge of being an accomplice in his daughter’s debt evasion case and was sentenced to 8 years in prison, prompting the state to strip him off the People’s Artist title. Due to old age, he was allowed by the court to remain in his home, and his whereabouts are not heard of ever since. It is often believed that he had passed away in the 2010s.
Acting credits
7.0No synopsis available yet.
The Best Groom
1975
NRHoa is a young engineer and computer specialist who arranges the database of an institution. She is hardworking, yet her dedication goes unnoticed, and her boss dismisses her work and expertise as “redundant”.
A Bird that Knows Its Way
1979
8.0Following 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
5.5Hoài and Vận fall in love during the war against the French. Vận fought as a guerrilla and Vận ferried guerrillas across the river. When peace comes, Vietnam is divided in two across the Bến Hải River, leaving them separated.
On the Same River
1959
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Life of Harmony
1981
NRThe story about a group of people struggling to expand agricultural land in North Vietnam.
The slope
1973
7.5A general who devoted his life to the communist cause, retires, only to find that his household is in disarray, his grown children money-grubbing, and Vietnamese society far from the rosy picture of equality he'd imagined he'd helped make it.
The General Retires
1988
NRDuong 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Part of Life I Want to Forget
1980
NRAn engineer devises a plan that will help a farm improve its staggering business, but is dismissed the farm’s manager.
The Forgotten Proposal
1980
NRThe conflict between a group of workers and the manager as they struggle to maximize the production in a cement factory in the 60s
White Smoke
1962
NRReturning 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Last Night of the Year
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