Thụy Vân

Acting

Thụy Vân

Born — Died

1940-05-02 — 2023-03-16

Place of birth

Hoa Lu, Ninh Bình Province, Vietnam

Known for

Acting

Credits

9 titles

Thụy Vân (May 2, 1940 – March 16, 2023) was a Vietnamese actress and director, best known for her role in "Rising Storm" (Nổi gió, d. Huy Thành & Lê Huyến, 1966). In 1959, she attended the first acting class of the Academy of Theater and Cinema, alongside other actors of her generation: Trà Giang, Lâm Tới, Trần Phương. In 1966, she starred in "Rising Storm", which won the Golden Lotus Award at the 1st Vietnam Film Festival in 1970. Afterwards, Thụy Vân continued to act in films such as "17th Parallel, Days and Nights" (Vĩ tuyến 17 ngày và đêm, d. Hải Ninh, 1972) and "August Star" (Sao tháng Tám, d. Trần Đắc, 1876). "The Black Tornado" (Cơn lốc đen), a film she directed, won the Special Prize…

Known for

Liberation of Saigon poster
10.0

The story of liberation of Saigon by People's Army of Vietnam and National Liberation Front of South Vietnam on 30 April 1975.

Liberation of Saigon

2005

17th Parallel, Nights and Days poster
8.0

Following 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

Two Mothers poster
NR

Upon meeting a young Vietnamese soldier during his brief stay in the Lao mountains, a woman begins recalling to her daughter episodes of her life ever since she had to leave Northwest Vietnam in 1952, including her fateful encounter with a Lao mother.

Two Mothers

1975

The slope poster
NR

The story about a group of people struggling to expand agricultural land in North Vietnam.

The slope

1973

No artwork available
NR

A young cadre of the state is in the board of a re-education programme for bourgeoisies, but the object of its "rehabilitation" turns out to be her mother-in-law who moved South after 1954.

Near and Far

1983

August Star poster
9.0

The plot of the film revolves around revolutionary soldiers who come from different classes, but all share the same patriotism. They had to overcome many life-and-death challenges and enormous adversities in order to mobilise the masses to prepare for an uprising and seize power from the Japanese fascists, in a situation where the country fell into the tragedy of famine.

August Star

1977

Film credits

1970s · 5 titles