Life of a Flower

Life of a Flower
VietnameseKiếp hoa
Hán-Nôm刧花
Directed byClaude Bernard
Screenplay byTrần Viết Long
Based on
Produced byTrần Viết Long
Starring
  • Kim Chung
  • Kim Xuân
  • Trần Quang Tứ
  • Ngọc Toàn
  • Tuấn Sửu
CinematographyRaymond Chao
Music by
Production
company
Kim Chung Films
Distributed by
  • Kim Chung Films
  • Vietnam National Institute of Film
Release date
1954
Running time
107 minutes
CountriesVietnam
China
France
LanguagesVietnamese
Chinese
French

Life of a Flower (Vietnamese: Kiếp hoa, French: La vie d'un fleur, Chinese: 花的生命) is a 1953 Vietnamese 16mm romance film directed by Trần Viết Long in his art name Trần Lang.[1]

Plot

Production

Life of a Flower was the first sound film which Vietnamese men has produced.[2] Location is Hanoi (84th Nguyen Du Street) and Hong Kong in 1953.

Art

  • Studio : Kim Chung Films (Kim-Chung Điện-ảnh Công-ti)
  • Director : Claude Bernard
  • Producer and writer : Trần Viết Long[3] (Manager Long)
  • Camera : Raymond Chao[4]

Music

  • My village (Chung Quân)
  • Echoes of memories[5] (Nguyễn Văn Tý), singing by Kim Chung and Kim Xuân
  • Autumn rain drops (Đặng Thế Phong)
  • The guitar left behind (Phạm Duy)

Cast

  • Kim Chung[6] ... Ngọc Lan
  • Kim Xuân[7] ... Ngọc Thủy
  • Trần Quang Tứ ... Thiện
  • Ngọc Toàn ... Nhạc
  • Tuấn Sửu ... Tam
  • Nhã Ái ... Lan and Thủy's mother
  • Tiền Phong ... Thiện's father
  • Tiêu Lang ... A man buys cigarettes

with others actors from Kim Chung Performing Arts (Đoàn Cải-lương Kim-Chung).[8]

See also

References

  1. ^ ""Kiếp hoa" – nét son của Hà Nội ngày tháng cũ". sites.google.com (in Vietnamese).
  2. ^ "Life of a Flower - The first sound film of Vietnam". www.facebook.com.
  3. ^ "Why Manager Long was called "the financier of the cailuong theatre" ?". cailuongvietnam.com.
  4. ^ Who has been thereafter known by Bruce Lee's films.
  5. ^ "Dư Âm - Nguyễn Văn Tý (cảnh trong phim Kiếp Hoa)" [Theme song Echoes of Memories in movie Life of a Flower] – via www.youtube.com.
  6. ^ Admiring the 1950s beauties of Vietnamese cinema
  7. ^ "Kim Xuân và hai vẻ đẹp Vân - Kiều" [Kim Xuân and her two "Vân - Kiều" beauties]. thanhnien.vn (in Vietnamese). April 2, 2007.
  8. ^ "Đoàn Kim Chung hay Tiếng Chuông Vàng Bắc Việt" [The sound of North Vietnam's golden bell]. Radio Free Asia (in Vietnamese).

External links

  • Kim Chung Performing Arts enlightened the history of Vietnamese cinema - Vietnamese Cailuong // Sunday, 18 November 2005, 06:13 (GMT+7)
  • Some feelings of the Life of a Flower - Short News Online // Sunday, 7 December 2008, 00:00 (GMT+7)
  • Re-release the Life of a Flower - Hanoi Grapevine // Friday, 1 October 2010, 00:00 (GMT+7)
  • Surprise by the beauties and voices of two Vietnamese actresses 63 years ago - BaoBinhLuan // Friday, 9 February 2018, 09:04 (GMT+7)
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