Thu An

Acting

Thu An

Born 1922-05-01 · Hanoi, Vietnam

Distinguished Artist Thu An (full name Nguyễn Thị Thu An, 1 May 1922 - 3 October 2011) was a Vietnamese actress, one of the veterans of Vietnamese cinema. She was best remembered for her roles as peasant women in "The August Star" (Sao tháng tám, d. Trần Đắc, 1976); the series "My Mother-in-law" (Mẹ chồng tôi, d. Khải Hưng, 1994); "The Retired General" (Tướng về hưu, d. Nguyễn Khắc Lợi, 1988). Thu An also had a part in the first feature film of Vietnamese revolutionary cinema, "On the Same River" (Chung một dòng sông, d. Nguyễn Hồng Nghi & Phạm Kỳ Nam, 1954).

Acting credits

Coordinates of Death poster
5.8

The story of a group of Soviet sailors aboard the freighter Chelyabinsk who aid their Vietnamese comrades after their ship is sunk during the Vietnam War.

Coordinates of Death

1986

The Guava House poster
6.8

A mentally challenged man spends his days working as an artist's model and visiting the now-occupied house of his childhood, where his beloved guava tree sits.

The Guava House

2002

The Beautiful Country poster
6.1

After reuniting with his mother in Ho Chi Minh City, a family tragedy causes Binh to flee from Viet Nam to America. Landing in New York, Binh begins a road trip to Texas, where his American father is said to live.

The Beautiful Country

2004

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ghen

1998

Obsession poster
NR

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

Obsession

1988

Nesting Season in Hanoi poster
NR

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

Song of the Stork poster
7.0

A story about young men who had to go war to protest their country. Each of them has his own story.

Song of the Stork

2003

Once Upon a Time in Vu Dai Village poster
NR

Thứ, a teacher in an impoverished village of French occupied Vietnam, witnesses the daily tragedies and hardships his neighborhood has to endure. A joint adaptation of three of Nam Cao's classic works: the short stories "Chi Pheo", "Old Hạc" (Lão Hạc) and the novel "Corroded Life" (Sống mòn).

Once Upon a Time in Vu Dai Village

1982

Those We Have Met poster
10.0

The life of two soldiers after war, who try to continue their studies at the university.

Those We Have Met

1979

No artwork available
NR

Struggling to secure a job and make ends meet after her graduation, a young woman slowly gives way to advances made towards her from a well-off company director.

Tears in the New Era

1996

On the Same River poster
5.5

Hoài 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

The Pot From A Past Life poster
NR

An old man chances upon a ceramic teapot while working as a gravedigger. Fervently believing that the teapot is a valuable piece of antique, he risks life and death to protect it against the concern of his family.

The Pot From A Past Life

1990

The General Retires poster
7.5

A 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

From The Same Forests poster
NR

Two classmates volunteer to work in logistics across the forests of Trường Sơn mountains.

From The Same Forests

1978

Little Stars poster
NR

Two talented swimmers from a small village are invited by a factory to compete for their team in national tournaments, but soon discover they are being used as a publicity ploy by the factory.

Little Stars

1980

Ephemeral Fate poster
NR

The battle for political power in the Trịnh clan continues after the death of Lord Trịnh Sâm in this sequel of "Night of Long Tri." The rivals are two famous concubines of Trịnh Sâm: Dương Thị Ngọc Hoan and Đặng Thị Huệ.

Ephemeral Fate

1990

Tempestuous Fate poster
NR

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

My Sweetheart Is Getting Married poster
8.0

Ten years after signing up as an army nurse, a woman returns to her village with a son in tow. Because she has no proof that she was ever married, the conservative village folk shun her.

My Sweetheart Is Getting Married

1995

The Little Girl of Hanoi poster
7.2

A young girl searches for her father, a soldier in the PAVN, after her mother and sister are killed during Christmas Bombings.

The Little Girl of Hanoi

1974

The Story of Mr. Lực and His Wife poster
NR

The head of a farming co-operative demolishes his house to free up land for the construction of a new irrigation canal, which causes great distress for him and his family.

The Story of Mr. Lực and His Wife

1971

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

A Visitor from the Countryside poster
NR

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

I Have Only You poster
NR

After the war, a young man reuniting with his beloved must deal with the fact that she has gone insane.

I Have Only You

1992

The Population Planning Minister poster
NR

The president of a small village is appointed to be the minister for population planning, a controversial decision for the residents and his wife who is trying for another baby.

The Population Planning Minister

1984