The Floating Lives (Vietnamese: Cánh đồng bất tận, lit.'Endless fields') is a 2010 Vietnamese film based on a short story of the same name by Nguyen Ngoc Tu. It generated revenues of 17 billion VND in 2010 (around US$0.8 million).[1]

The Floating Lives
Film poster
VietnameseCánh đồng bất tận
Directed byQuang Binh Nguyen Phan
Written byNgu Nguy
Based onCánh đồng bất tận
by Nguyen Ngoc Tu
Produced byVietnam Media Corp & Vietnam Studio
BHD
StarringDustin Nguyen
Do Thi Hai Yen
Tang Thanh Ha
Ninh Duong Lan Ngoc
CinematographyNguyen Tranh
Edited byFolmer Wiesinger
Music byNguyen Quoc Trung
Distributed byVietnam Media
Release date
  • October 22, 2010 (2010-10-22)
CountryVietnam
LanguageVietnamese

Origin

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"The Endless Field" was written in 2006 by Nguyen Ngoc Tu and became a controversial short story at once. BHD (Hãng phim Việt) bought its copyright at a reasonable price. "The Endless Field" was made into the Vietnamese feature film Floating Lives in 2010.

The English translation appears in a collection of NNT short stories titled Floating Lives. The translator is Luu ThanhThuy and the publisher is ASEAN (2013).

Movie making group

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The Floating Lives is an co-operational movie of BHD, Vietnam Studio and Mega Media.

References

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  1. ^ "Nguyễn Ngọc Tư: Một nhà văn viết về thân phận con người". Thanh Nien. 29 October 2012. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
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The Floating Lives at IMDb