Duong Don

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.

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.

Em plena Guerra do Vietnã, o tenente-coronel Hal Moore e mais 400 integrantes do exército norte-americano, todos da elite de combate, são cercados por 2000 soldados vietnamitas. A batalha que se segue a partir de então se torna uma das mais sangrentas da história militar norte-americana, fazendo com que posteriormente o lugar onde ela ocorreu seja conhecido como o Vale da Morte.

Em 1975, ultimo ano da Guerra do Vietnã, o sargento Jim Lance, encarregado de abrigar um grupo de refugiados vietnamitas em Camp Pendleton, na Califórnia, cultiva profunda amizade com um dos garotos do grupo.

Um americano na Cidade de Ho Chi Minh no Vietnã, antiga Saigon, procura uma filha que ele gerou durante a guerra. Nessa busca o filme vai retratando indivíduos que triunfam sobre as adversidades, recuperando-se dos traumas, ansiosos por melhores tempos, bem como com a nostalgia por aqueles dias melhores antes das invasões americanas e francesas e outras invasões, materiais ou ideológicas. É um filme poético que tenta pintar uma imagem da cultura urbana submetida à ocidentalização.

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.

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?

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.

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.