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.

Рассказ о героях и их героизме, которых незаслуженно забыли при сражении под Ай Дрэнгом. В первом крупном сражении между американскими и вьетконговскими войсками 395 американцев оказалось в окружении, причем враг значительно превосходил их по численности. События происходили с 23 октября по 26 ноября 1965 года.

События фильма разворачиваются в 1975 году, во времена, когда более 134 000 вьетнамцев покинули свою родину и оказались в американских лагерях для беженцев. В одном из таких лагерей в Пендлтоне, расположенного на побережье Южной Калифорнии, и происходят события фильма. Сюжет состоит из переплетения нескольких историй вьетнамских беженцев: маленький мальчик, ждущий появление в лагере своей матери, пара супругов, переживающие не лучшие времена и другие. Объединяет и в то же время очень сильно пугает их всех одно обстоятельство — это неопределенность с будущим. Такой актерский состав привлечет внимание к картине многих любителей кино. Но вместе с тем у вьетнамского режиссера Тимоти Лин Буи получилось неоднозначное кино с неспешным повествование и абсолютно ровным течением событий, без каких-либо ярких и эмоциональных событий.

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.

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.