qua ben Thuong Hai” (Across Shanghai) made by the Vietnam Writers’
Association Film Studio (VIVAFILM), premiered in Hanoi on Dec. 12.
VIVAFILM Director Nguyen Xuan Hung said the biopic can be seen as the
second part of “Nguyen Ai Quoc o Hong Kong (Nguyen Ai Quoc in Hong
Kong).
The film will be officially on screens in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City as from Dec. 17.
Based
on the script by Vietnamese writers Ha Pham Phu and Le Ngoc Minh and
Chinese author Jia Fei, the film, directed by Trieu Tuan of Vietnam and
Fan Dong Yu of China, portrays the life of Nguyen Ai Quoc in 1934 when
he came from Hong Kong to Shanghai to try to make contact with
international revolutionary movement.
The film spotlights the
innate traits of a leader of Nguyen Ai Quoc and praises the
contributions to the Vietnamese revolutionary cause by Vietnamese
patriots in China and the assistance that several historic figures gave
to Nguyen in Shanghai.
The film was mainly shot in Hengdian Film
Studio in Shanghai, and Nghe An, Quang Binh, Thanh Hoa, Quang Nam
provinces of Vietnam. The role of Nguyen Ai Quoc is played by actor Minh
Hai.
The State provided 70 percent of the film’s cost, about 11 billion VND, and the remaining 30 percent was mobilised by VIVAFILM.
After
the film, VIVAFILM has begun shooting two other films also of
revolutionary topics to celebrate the 11th National Party Congress in
2011./.
