Duong Don

Duong Don

Birth : 1957-08-27, Dalat, Vietnam

Death : 2011-12-08

History

Don Duong (born August 27, 1957) is a film actor who had been well known in Vietnam long before his first film was even seen in the United States. Description above from the Wikipedia article Don Duong (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Duong Don

Movies

The Anniversary
Father
In 1963 a boy and his mother are left in Saigon while his father and brother flee to seek shelter from religious persecution in North Vietnam. The two brothers meet as strangers in a hapless confrontation during the war in 1973.
Mê Thao: Once Upon a Time
Tam
In early 20th century Vietnam a nobleman scorns everything Western after his beautiful fiance dies in an auto wreck and forces the poor villagers to destroy all their "modern" possessions.
We Were Soldiers
Lt. Col. Nguyen Huu An
The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War and the soldiers on both sides that fought it.
Green Dragon
Tai Tran
A tale about Vietnamese refugees sent to an orientation camp on the Camp Pendleton Marine Base in California, 'Green Dragon' focuses on a young boy and his sister. Set in 1975, the film chronicles the stories told to the two children by other refugees in the camp and of Tai Tran, who dares to introduce himself to Sergeant Jim Lance. In developing a relationship with Lance, Tran is able to improve
Three Seasons
Hai
The residents of Ho Chi Minh City face modernization amid widespread poverty. A retired American Marine arrives on a search for his daughter, whom he abandoned at the end of the Vietnam War. Elsewhere, a cyclo driver falls for a troubled prostitute and schemes to raise money so he can spend time with her. Additionally, a young women begins harvesting lotuses for a writer suffering from leprosy, and a child trinket seller loses his traveling case.
Sandy Lives
Cảnh
For twenty years, Canh has lived in North Vietnam, unable to return to his home in the south where his wife is waiting for him. She is happy to reunite with her husband until she learns that he has married a young woman in the north and has a child by her. The love triangle becomes more complicated.
The Building
On May 1, 1975 with Viet Cong troops march through Saigon celebrating their victory. Tham, caretaker of Victory Hotel, a relatively small establishment in downtown Saigon, nervously observes these celebrations. The owners have fled Saigon and the hotel is to be requisitioned by the new government. Tham wonders what his fate will be under the new regime. The next day he is told that that the hotel is to be transformed into a collective flat for the Viet Cong cadre and their families now entering the city. Tham is not hostile to this but is concerned about his place in the new set up. Will he still have a job? Will he be treated as an enemy?
Lời Thề
Devil's Mark
A fable about social prejudice, Devil’s Mark tells the story of a young girl who is accused of witchcraft and banished from society. The film was shot in the remote mountainous region of Ganh Son — a gruelling production location that involved transporting cameras and equipment by cattle carts. Rich in mythological associations and striking desolate landscapes, Devil’s Mark also features the first scene of complete nudity in a Vietnamese film.
The Gamble
Don Duong stars as a truck driver who falls in love with a young student girl in a roadside border canteen. Unsure about him, she returns to school but finally decides to throw in her lot with him. This decision forms the gambling motif in the film, a decision which causes her grief, when she later becomes the subject of his gamble.