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Filmmaker · Vietnam

Nguyễn Hữu Phần

Died in 2024

Nguyễn Hữu Phần was born in 1948 in Hanoi, into a family from Văn Giang, in Hưng Yên, the youngest of six children, and lost his father at the age of three. A graduate of the Hanoi teacher training college, he taught literature before leaving everything for the fiction film studio, where he first worked as script supervisor alongside his elders, Trần Vũ among them. In 1979 he entered the first intake of the higher school of theatre and cinema, and in 1992 he founded the Youth Cinema Centre with Lưu Trọng Ninh and two others. He then moved to television, where he made series about the countryside. He died in Hanoi on 22 May 2024.

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