Cinema
Người chiến sĩ trẻ
Hải Ninh · 1964
Synopsis
During the war against France, a young man from a company in the North finds himself facing a tank that holds the road and that nothing stops: the troop's weapons do nothing against the armour, and the assaults fail one after another. He has only grenades and the help of his comrades, and he must get close enough to hit the machine where it is vulnerable. The film follows his formation as a soldier as much as this daring strike.
Context
Black and white, produced by the Hanoi studio with the army's film unit, from a screenplay by the writer Hải Hồ. The cinematography is by Nguyễn Khánh Dư, who later moved into directing. Hồng Đức plays the title role and Trần Phương the company commander. The film was signed by two men, the second of whom has left no other trace in the directories. A copy with Chinese subtitles was shown in China.
Who it is for
In Vietnamese, subtitled, in black and white. An edifying war film, to be taken together with the rhetoric of its moment: it was released in the year of the first bombings of the North.
Prizes and reception
Golden Lotus at the first national festival, in 1970, with only two other fiction films; it counted in the award of the Hồ Chí Minh Prize to its author.