Nguyễn Đăng Bảy

Nguyễn Đăng Bảy

Nacimiento : 1923-01-01, Tu Son, Bắc Ninh province, Vietnam

Muerte : 2007-06-01

Historia

People's Artist Nguyễn Đăng Bảy (b. Bắc Ninh province, 1/1/1923 - 6/2007) was a Vietnamese cinematographer. He began filming documentaries reporting the wartime activities of Hồ Chí Minh, after being given a camera in 1949 by his office. Afterwards, in 1960, he participated in his first feature film "The Construction Girl" (Cô gái công trường). The next year, his work in "The Passerine Bird" (Con chim vành khuyên, d. Trần Vũ & Nguyễn Văn Thông) won him the award for Best Cinematography at the 2nd Vietnam Film Festival in 1973. Nguyễn Đăng Bảy won this award again at the next festival in 1975 for the film "We'll Be Seeing Us Again" (Đến hẹn lại lên, d. Trần Vũ, 1974). In total, he was the director of photography in over 30 feature films, including "Rising Storm" (Nổi gió, d. Huy Thành & Lê Huyến, 1966); "Mrs. Dau" (Chị Dậu, d. Phạm Văn Khoa, 1981); "Holy Day" (Ngày lễ Thánh, d. Bạch Diệp, 1976); "Stormy Ride" (Chuyến xe bão táp, d. Trần Vũ, 1978); "That Day on Lam River" (Ngày ấy bên sông Lam, d. Nguyễn Ngọc Trung); etc.

Perfil

Nguyễn Đăng Bảy

Películas

Mrs. Dau
Cinematography
Based on the novel "When the light is out" by Ngô Tất Tố. Under the cruel domination of the French Indochina, a woman has to sell her daughter and four dogs to a rich family in the village to save her husband from being tortured when they can't pay their taxes.
Nesting Season in Hanoi
Cinematography
Hanoi of 1978, milkwood pine flowers in autumn, and the anxiety of idealistic youths navigating postwar life. A young couple struggle to be together as individual happiness gets in the way.
The Holy Day
Cinematography
A story about a Catholic Village by the sea in Northern Vietnam in the early 60's, where people lacked faith in the new Communist regime.
We'll Be Seeing Us Again
Director of Photography
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.
Smoke
Cinematography
A short film by Tran Vu
Rising Storm
Director of Photography
Phương and his sister Vân reunite after years of separation in the war, but their clashing political affiliations soon set them apart.
Floating Village
Director of Photography