From Saigon to Dien Bien Phu (Vietnamese: Từ Sài Gòn tới Điện Biên Phủ) All quiet on the Saigon front or Saigon out of war (Chinese: 西貢無戰事) is a 1967 Vietnamese 35mm Eastmancolor film directed by Lê Mộng Hoàng.
From Saigon to Dien Bien Phu | |
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Directed by | Lê Mộng Hoàng |
Screenplay by | Quốc Phong |
Produced by | Quốc Phong Nguyễn Tăng Hồng |
Starring | Lê Quỳnh Thẩm Thúy Hằng Kiều Chinh Đoàn Châu Mậu Lily Chen Ching |
Cinematography | Châu Tùng |
Edited by | Tăng Thiên Tài |
Music by | Nghiêm Phú Phi |
Production companies | |
Distributed by | Mỹ Vân Films |
Release date |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
Countries | Republic of Vietnam Republic of China Hong Kong |
Languages | Vietnamese Chinese(sub.) English(sub.) French(sub.) |
Plot
editThe Joint Chiefs of Staff want to send some ARVNSF troops to North's Điện Biên Phủ for the Dien Bien Phu Operation. But all have been caught or killed by Chinese spies as Kiều Loan (Kiều Chinh), except Major Ngọc Minh (Lê Quỳnh).
Production
editThe locations are Saigon, Hong Kong and Taipei in 1967.
Art
edit- Studio: Mỹ Vân Films, Asia Motion Pictures Company
- Print: National Centre for Cinema
- Scan: Spectra Films Studio
- Executive producer: Lưu Trạch Hưng
- Producer: Quốc Phong, Nguyễn Tăng Hồng
- Director: Lê Mộng Hoàng
- Writer: Quốc Phong
- Secretary: Lưu Trạch Quang
- Cinematography: Châu Tùng
- Editor: Tăng Thiên Tài
- Composer: Nghiêm Phú Phi
Cast
edit- Lê Quỳnh as Major Ngọc Minh
- Kiều Chinh as Kiều Loan
- Thẩm Thúy Hằng
- Đoàn Châu Mậu as Colonel Lâm
- Hoàng Vĩnh Lộc
- Khả Năng
- Lê Khanh
- Ngọc Phu
- Trần Khánh
- Phương Dung
- You Ming
- Cheng Hou
- Lily Chen Ching
and Air Vietnam staff members.
See also
editReferences
edit- 西貢無戰事
- Lê Quang Thanh Tâm, Pre-1975 South Vietnamese Cinema, HochiMinh City Culture and Art Publishing House, Saigon, 2015.
- Tony Williams, John Woo's Bullet in the Head (The New Hong Kong Cinema), Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong, May 2009.
- From Saigon to Dienbien Fu
- RVN Cinema: Sublimation in the difficulty Archived 2018-02-09 at the Wayback Machine
- 半世紀前的台灣「舊」南向,是星光燦爛的藝文往事