Love Case
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Vietnamese | Tình án |
Hán-Nôm | 情案 |
Directed by | Võ Việt Hùng |
Screenplay by | Hồ Văn Trung (novel) |
Produced by | Nguyễn Văn Vạn |
Starring | Thanh Trúc |
Cinematography | Đỗ Đức Long Quốc Việt |
Edited by | Nguyễn Trọng Nghĩa |
Music by | |
Production company | |
Distributed by | HCTV |
Release date | 2008 |
Running time | 45 minutes x 23 chaps |
Country | Vietnam |
Languages | Vietnamese French |
Love Case (Vietnamese: Tình án, Chinese: 案例的愛情) is a 2008 Vietnamese telefilm adapted from Hồ Văn Trung's July 1941 novel Cư kỉnh (居璟). The film was produced by Ho Chi Minh City Television and directed by Võ Việt Hùng.[1]
Plot[]
The film is set in Cần Thơ's village of Cochinchina in the 1930s. It features a family of district chief Mr.Hàm Tân (Huỳnh Anh Tuấn), in a time when romance novels infiltrated. Neighbour and writer Chí Cao (Trương Minh Quốc Thái) is killed with his paper-knife, but no one knows who his killer is. Suspects include killer Quận (Tấn Beo), Thị Lịnh (Hoàng Minh Minh), Mrs. District-chief Hàm Tân (Thiên Hương) and Túy (Quế Phương).
Production[]
Shot on location at Gò Công, Saigon, Thủ Dầu Một, Sa Đéc, Trà Vinh, Bến Tre and Da Lat in 2008. The location used as the house of District-chief Hàm Tân was the famous address of Gò Công, its name was Prefecture-chief Hải's Oldhouse.[2]
Film[]
- Product manager : Nguyễn Việt Hùng
- Assistant director : Lê Cường, Hồ Vân, Lê Văn Quý, Trần Minh Trung
- Accountant : Thúy Anh, Minh Phụng, Minh Hoa
- Camera : Cao Thành Danh, Đinh Anh Cường, Trần Văn Vinh, Đoàn Tiến Dũng, Trần Ngọc Thiện
- Design : Lê Cương, Lê Thắng, Hồng Minh, Vũ Ngọc Tâm, Huỳnh Ngọc Trạng
- Light : Nguyễn Minh Hoàng, Nguyễn Thành Vinh, Nguyễn Văn Đạt, Phan Phú Quý
- Make-up : Ngọc Vân, Hoàn Kim
- Costume : Trịnh Thế Bảo, Vũ Ngọc Linh
Music[]
- Theme songs "Looking down" (Cúi mặt) and "Round of the sorrow" (Vòng sầu) by with 's singing.
Cast[]
- ... Mr. District-chief Hàm Tân
- ... Mrs. District-chief Hàm Tân
- [3] ... Túy
- Thanh Trúc ... Huyên
- ... Chí Cao
- Quốc Cường ... Mr. Prefecture-chief Huyền
- Phúc An ... Mrs. Prefecture-chief Huyền
- ... Quận
- ... Bảng
- Mỹ Dung ... Lady Ba
- Hoàng Minh Minh ... Ngô Thị Lịnh
- ... Village-chief Tại
- ... Physician
- Ngọc Thảo ... Tú
- Lê Chẩn ... Chó
- Thu Hà ... Tư Thanh
- ... Thuần Phong
- Hào Khánh ... Clerk
- Minh Luân ... Accountant Thanh
- Thu Nga ... Ngọ
- Lê Cường ... The captain
- Trần Văn Đua ... The cop
- Hoàng Vũ ... Chief of village-guards
- ... The procurator
- Alfred ... The judge
- ... The medical-examiner
- Kim Loan ... Translator
- Chánh Thuận ... Canh
- Thủ Tín ... Huê
- Quang Đáng ... Bằng Linh
- Quang Thắng ... Village-teacher Kỉnh
- Hoàng Phong ... Prefecture-chief Huyền in his childhood
- Hoàng Tấn ... First lawyer
- Xuân Hùng ... Second lawyer
- Phan Trung Hiếu ... Bỉnh
- ... Village-notable Đống
- ... Wife of village-notable Đống
- Văn Tiến ... Tộ
- Minh Cường ... Tí
- Bạch Liên ... The watershop-innkeeper
- Lê Khắc Sinh Nhật ... Guard of the prefecture-chief
- Lê Tiến Phát ... Chí Cao in his childhood
- Thanh Lan ... The oldman loses his whaleboat
- Bảo Nghi ... Daughter of Thị Lịnh
- Diễm Tuyết ... Innkeeper of tailorshop Ngọc Lan
- Như Nguyệt ... The bookshop-innkeeper
and : Cao Kim Loan, Bích Thảo, Trần Ngọc Lìn, Lê Minh Phụng, Hồ Vân, Ngọc Tâm, Ngọc Hồng, Ngọc Phi, Kim Cương, Kim Lan, Thu Hà, Âu Ngọc Thủy, Thanh Vân, Phú Quý, Minh Hoa, Hoàng Oanh, Ngọc Ngự, Thanh Hồng, and Minh Trung
Awards[]
Love Case received the Golden Ochna Integerrima Award for best film director (awarded to Võ Việt Hùng) in 2009.[4]
References[]
External links[]
- Vietnamese drama television series
- Vietnamese crime films
- Vietnamese historical films
- Films based on Vietnamese novels
- Films based on works by Hồ Văn Trung
- 2008 films
- Films set in French Indochina