Hồ Quang Minh (胡光明; 1949–2020) was a Vietnamese-born Swiss film director.[1]
Hồ Quang Minh | |
|---|---|
| Born | Hồ Quang Minh 1949 |
| Died | 2020 (aged 70–71) |
| Citizenship |
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| Occupation(s) | Director, writer |
| Years active | 1962–2000 |
| Awards | ? |
Biography
editHồ Quang Minh left Vietnam to study in Switzerland about 1962, then worked in France as an assistant on Lê Lâm's Poussière d'empire, before studying in Switzerland and taking Swiss citizenship.[2][3]
In 1996, his film Gone, Gone Forever Gone was selected as the Vietnamese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 69th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.[4]
Filmography
edit- Phường tôi (French title Mon Quartier), documentary 28 min, video, (1982)
- Con thú tật nguyền (French and English title Karma), drama 100 min, 35 mm, (1985) - war film
- Trang giấy trắng (French Page Blanche), drama 100 min, 35 mm, (1991)
- Bụi hồng (English, from Sanskrit Gate Gate Paragate also known as Gone, Gone Forever Gone), drama 85 min, 35 mm, (1996)[5]
- Thời xa vắng (English A Time Far Past, French Le Temps Révolu), (2004)[6] Film music by Đặng Hữu Phúc
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Le Temps Révolu 2004[permanent dead link]
- ^ New York Magazine - 20 Jul 1987 - Page 65 Vol. 20, No. 28 "... drama of a South Vietnamese soldier and his fiancee, set in Saigon during the late 1960s. A Vietnamese-Swiss co-production shot in Ho Chi Minh City and directed by Hanoi-born filmmaker Ho Quang Minh, who has become a Swiss citizen."
- ^ East-West encounters: Franco-Asian cinema and literature - Page 122 Sylvie Blum-Reid - 2003 "The case of Ho Quang Minh, who directed Karma (1985), is interesting in that respect. He went to Russia and then France in the 1980s, where he was an assistant on Lam Le's Poussiere d'empire. Now living in Switzerland, he has his own ..."
- ^ "39 Countries Hoping for Oscar Nominations". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 13 November 1996. Archived from the original on 9 February 1999. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
- ^ "Phim cũ của đạo diễn Hồ Quang tham dự LHP Phật giáo". Archived from the original on 2012-08-16. Retrieved 2012-08-17.
- ^ A Time Far Past 2004 "Meticulous and classic film version of the book Thoi xa vang (A Distant Past) by the writer Le Lu. This book, famous in Vietnam, was published in 1986, just when the country was starting to open up to the rest of the world after its post-war isolation. "
- Lê Quang Thanh Tâm, Điện ảnh miền Nam trôi theo dòng lịch sử, Hochiminh City Culture & Arts Publishing House, Saigon, 2015.