Life of a Flower (Vietnamese: Kiếp hoa, French: La vie d'un fleur, Chinese: 花的生命) is a 1953 Vietnamese 16mm romance film directed by Trần Viết Long in his art name Trần Lang.[1]

Life of a Flower
VietnameseKiếp hoa
Hán-Nôm刧花
Directed byClaude Bernard
Screenplay byTrần Viết Long
Based on
Produced byTrần Viết Long
Starring
CinematographyRaymond Chao
Music by
Production
company
Distributed by
Release date
  • 1954 (1954)
Running time
107 minutes
CountriesVietnam
China
France
LanguagesVietnamese
Chinese
French

Plot

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Production

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Life of a Flower was the first sound film which Vietnamese men has produced.[2] Location is Hanoi (84th Nguyen Du Street) and Hong Kong in 1953.

Music

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Cast

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  • Kim Chung[6] ... Ngọc Lan
  • Kim Xuân[7] ... Ngọc Thủy
  • Trần Quang Tứ ... Thiện
  • Ngọc Toàn ... Nhạc
  • Tuấn Sửu ... Tam
  • Nhã Ái ... Lan and Thủy's mother
  • Tiền Phong ... Thiện's father
  • Tiêu Lang ... A man buys cigarettes

with others actors from Kim Chung Performing Arts (Đoàn Cải-lương Kim-Chung).[8]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ ""Kiếp hoa" – nét son của Hà Nội ngày tháng cũ". sites.google.com (in Vietnamese).
  2. ^ "Life of a Flower - The first sound film of Vietnam". www.facebook.com.
  3. ^ "Why Manager Long was called "the financier of the cailuong theatre" ?". cailuongvietnam.com.
  4. ^ Who has been thereafter known by Bruce Lee's films.
  5. ^ "Dư Âm - Nguyễn Văn Tý (cảnh trong phim Kiếp Hoa)" [Theme song Echoes of Memories in movie Life of a Flower] – via www.youtube.com.
  6. ^ Admiring the 1950s beauties of Vietnamese cinema
  7. ^ "Kim Xuân và hai vẻ đẹp Vân - Kiều" [Kim Xuân and her two "Vân - Kiều" beauties]. thanhnien.vn (in Vietnamese). April 2, 2007.
  8. ^ "Đoàn Kim Chung hay Tiếng Chuông Vàng Bắc Việt" [The sound of North Vietnam's golden bell]. Radio Free Asia (in Vietnamese).
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