Trần Hạnh
Actor · 1929 – 2021 · Hanoi, Vietnam
People’s Artist Trần Hạnh (March 12, 1929 – March 4, 2021) was a Vietnamese actor. Best known to the audience for his portrayal of impoverished peasants stuck in ironic miseries, he was born in Hanoi to a worker at the Ngô Tử Hạ printing factory on Nhà Thờ Street, and to a mother who was a small-sized merchant. His dad passed away when he was 8, and to support his mother he worked as a shoemaker, during which time he also participated in drama classes at the City’s Youth Social Club; in here, he befriended many artists who would later become influential figures in Vietnamese cinema like Đoàn Dũng, Trọng Khôi,.. In the early 1950s, Trần Hạnh joined Hanoi Theatre. He achieved many accolades at national drama festivals and was a highly established actor, but the highlight of his career only came in the late 70s and early 80s when he played the role of the revered patriot and poet Nguyễn Trãi in the poetic play “Lam Sơn Tụ Nghĩa”, which won the Gold Medal at the National Drama Festival; he aslo took leading roles in the plays "Tiền tuyến gọi" (The Front Line Calls"), "Âm mưu và tình yêu" ("Conspiracy and Love") directed by Nguyễn Đình Nghi. The playwright Lưu Quang Vũ praised him as “the only person to be able to rightly portray Nguyễn Trãi”, and the General Secretary Trường Chinh complimented him in person for his performance in "Âm mưu và tình yêu”. Trần Hạnh retired from the Hanoi Theatre in 1989 and began to work in films. His first feature film role was in "Chiếc bình tiền kiếp" by Nguyễn Hữu Phần. He then participated in many other films such as "Tướng về hưu," "Hãy tha thứ cho em," "Cỏ lau," "Người đàn bà thứ hai," "Làng nổi,"...His first TV role, also his favorite, was the role of Mr. Cần in the series "Cuốn sổ ghi đời" by Tất Bình. At the 11th Vietnam Film Festival in 1996, he won the Best Actor award in the film "Nước mắt đàn bà" ("Tears of a Woman"). At the 2010 National Television Festival, he was honored with the Contribution Award for his role in the film "Ngõ lỗ thủng," directed by Quốc Trọng. In 2017, he participated in "Cha cõng con" in the role of a blind man. The actor passed away at his home on March 4, 2021, aged 92.
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Movie6.1DramaAfter 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
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Movie6.0DramaWhen they discover that they are pregnant, a young couple in Hanoi resort to desperate (and bizarre) measures to raise money for an abortion.
MovieDramaDuring the war, a woman learns that her husband is an army deserter.
Movie7.0RomanceThe vibrations adolescence, nostalgia injured ones in the battlefield, the dreaming and wondering aimlessly early ... has created space for a story fairy with her An.
Movie9.0DramaRomanceTrong, a self-proclaimed king of a garbage dump, falls in love with the poor flower seller Thuy.
Movie7.0DramaHistoryA thrilling and haunting account of historical events in the Trịnh clan in the late 18th century with the central conflict between lord Trịnh Sâm who was feeble and indecisive, and a cunning and manipulative concubine named Đặng Thị Huệ. Based on the novel of the same name by Nguyễn Huy Tưởng.
Movie7.5DramaA 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.
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MovieDramaFleeing the control of their authoritarian father, two women cross the border into China with a friend’s help.
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MovieRomanceIn a time of chaos and conflicts, a talented musician falls in love with an upper-class royal mandarin.
Movie8.5DramaHistorySai is forced to marry Tuyet at the age of ten and leaves his home by the river wharf to live with an old man named Kien. As the war against France accelerates, Sai enlists to fight and falls in love with another woman named Huong. While the affair is fated not to last, Tuyet struggles to keep her marriage together.
Movie6.2DramaThang is a Hanoi intellectual and graduates from university with high distinction causing his former teacher, Dao, to invite him to work in a mathematics institute of odd algorithms. He has problems because of his personality and refuses to give up his mathematical perspectives. He distinguishes himself as a person of integrity, which also causes problems for him.
Movie4.5DramaAt a dance bar, a former soldier and now company director chances upon a hostess whose appearance resembles the young girl that saved his life many years ago in the War.
Movie9.0DramaA peasant opens a lucrative dog meat shop but becomes a subject of extreme loathing from the local people. When his shop is finally burned down, the man enlists the help of his son and nephews to leave their home and work as sawyers in a logging camp. However, his scheming and cruel nature seems to persist even in the vast forests.
MovieDramaAn old man dreams of escaping poverty and securing a better future for his family in retirement through winning a lottery, though luck is never on his side.
MovieDramaThe inhabitants of a small island in the delta of the turbulent Red River are doomed to poverty: floods wash away crops, livestock, and even people. From generation to generation, a legend is passed down about a kind dragon that can drink the river's water and save the village. But the dragon is a fairy tale, and the people have decided to block the treacherous river themselves. With extraordinary perseverance, fighting against the elements, the village population builds protective fortifications around the island.