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Filmmaker · Vietnam

Phạm Kỳ Nam

Died in 1984

Phạm Kỳ Nam, who died in 1984, was the first director from the North trained abroad: in the fifties he took courses at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques in Paris, then returned to work at the state studio in Hanoi, of which he was one of the first directors. There he shot comedies, war films and adaptations of contemporary stories for twenty-five years, and trained several of those who came after him.

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