Lịch Du

Acting

Lịch Du

Born 1940-02-06 · An Thi, French Indochina [now Hưng Yên Province, Vietnam]

Lịch Du (6 February, 1940 – 27 January, 2021) was a Vietnamese actress and screenwriter. One of the first graduates of the Hanoi Academy of Theater and Cinema, she began acting in 1966, and the only main role she had throughout her career was Đuông Chăn, a Lao mother in Nguyễn Khắc Lợi's "Hai người mẹ" (1975). Some of her scripts were directed by Hoàng Tích Chỉ.

Acting credits

Flame poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Flame

1969

A Bird that Knows Its Way poster
NR

Hoa 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

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

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

Return to the Sedge Fields poster
NR

Discharged 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

The Foster Child poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Foster Child

1977

Nowhere to Hide poster
NR

Three ARVN special task agents infiltrate the ranks of North Vietnamese army to plant doubts and fears among Revolutionary soldiers.

Nowhere to Hide

1971

Memories at the Moon Hill poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Memories at the Moon Hill

1989

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

The Sun Rises on the High Plains poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Sun Rises on the High Plains

1966

Unintended Separation poster
NR

The director of a steel refinery comes into conflict with his wife over plans that might affect her father's reputation.

Unintended Separation

1986