Lê Dân

Lê Dân, whose real name was Lê Hữu Phước, was born on 13 August 1928 in Tây Ninh, into a family of scholars, and studied cinema in Paris in the early fifties. Back home, he worked in Saigon until 1975, combining teaching, journalism, the bar and film sets, while secretly serving the resistance. He stayed in the country after reunification and went on making films. In 2010 he paid out of his own pocket for a film about the remorse of an American veteran of Mỹ Lai. He died at home in Ho Chi Minh City on 26 February 2016.

In the catalogue 1

• CinemaLoan mắt nhungLê Dân · 1970Cinema