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Profile: Đặng Nhật Minh
Thursday, December 02, 2004

Đặng Nhật Minh

Age: 67

Birthplace: Hué

Residence: Hà Nội

Films:

1980 - “Thị Xã Trong Tầm Tay” or “The Town Within Reach,” awarded the Golden Lotus prize at Vietnam’s 7th National Film Festival

1984 - “Bao Giờ Cho Đến Tháng Mừơi” or “When October Comes”

1987 - “Cô Gái Trên Sông” or “The Girl at the River”

1994 - “Trở Về” or “The Return”

1995 - “Thương Nhớ Đồng Quê” or “Nostalgia for the Countryside,” awarded the NetPac Prize at Rotterdam, the Audience Prize at Nantes, France

1997 - “Hà Nội: Mùa Đông Năm 1946” or “Ha Noi: Winter 1946”

2000 - “Mùa Ơi” or “Season of Guavas,” awarded the Don Quijote prize of the FICC/IFFS at Locarno

Background: Đặng Nhật Minh was born into a family of scholars and patriots. His father, Đặng Văn Ngữ, was a well-known doctor whose production of penicillin helped to save many lives from malaria. He himself started as a documentary filmmaker in 1965. He has also worked as a journalist, writer and served as general secretary of the Vietnamese Filmmakers Association for 10 years.

Đặng is the first Vietnamese director to have won the prestigious Nikkei Asia prize in 1999. In 2001, Dặng was invited by Australian Phillip Noyce to join him as a second director in a remake of “The Quiet American,” starring Michael Caine and Brendan Fraser.

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