Series
2000
Seek No Fortune
The dynamics between two long-time best friends change when one starts working as the other's subordinate and becomes inflicted in his workplace power battles.
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Filmmaker
Died
2013-08-17
From
Hanoï, French Indochina [now Vietnam]
Known for
Directing
People’s Artist Bạch Diệp (1929 - 17/8/2013) was a Vietnamese film director and screenwriter. She was considered one of the most influential directors in early Vietnamese cinema, and also its very first female director. Born into a well-off Catholic family in Hanoi, Bạch Diệp first began her career as a journalist for Nhân Dân newspaper. In 1959, she applied for the government’s training course on film directing (the only woman to do so) and started working for Vietnam Feature Film Studio after her graduation in 1963. Bạch Diệp’s debut feature “Trần Quốc Toản ra quân”(1971) was an immediate hit; the film clinched the highest accolade at that year’s Vietnam Film Festival.…
