Đào Đức

Đào Đức

Birth : , Nam Dinh, Vietnam

History

Đào Đức (1928 - 2007) was a Vietnamese painter and the first art director of Vietnamese cinema, working on the production design for the the country's first revolutionary film "On the Same River" (Chung một dòng sông, d. Phạm Kỳ Nam, 1959).

Profile

Đào Đức

Movies

Dumb Luck
Art Direction
The sexually repressed widow Doan comes to play tennis in the court where sly, lewd orphan Xuan (nicknamed Red-haired Xuan for his sunburnt hair) is working as a ball boy. Their encounter that day would change Xuan's life forever, as the widow introduced him to an entirely different world of the hypocritical and decadent petite bourgeoisie class, a condition of "Westernized" middle-class Hanoians under French colonial rule in the 1920s. An 8-part series adapted from Vu Trong Phung's classic satire.
First Love
Art Direction
Student Ba Duy sinks deep into heartbreak and a nihilistic street life when his sweetheart, Diem Huong, suddenly leaves him to marry an American diplomat.
We'll Be Seeing Us Again
Art Direction
On a festive spring day in 1940, two young quan họ singers fall in love. But their relationship is soon ruthlessly disrupted by class injustices, imposed upon both—and many other Vietnamese—by the ongoing French colonial rule and the looming Japanese occupation.
On the Same River
Production Design
On The Same River is the 1959 film of two directors Nguyen Hong Nghi and Pham Hieu Dan (ie Pham Ky Nam ) produced by the Vietnam Film Company . This is the first feature film of North Vietnam after 1954 and also the first feature film of Vietnam Revolution Cinema