A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Director TỰ HUY was born in 1937 in Kim Lũ Village (now Thanh Tri, Hanoi). He was among Vietnamese cinema’s first generation of actors, appearing in several landmark films of the revolutionary era, such as On The Same River (Chung Một Dòng Sông, 1959), Fire Behind The Frontline (Lửa Trung Tuyến, 1961), and Ms. Tư Hậu (Chị Tư Hậu, 1962). In 1977, he transitioned to directing, creating notable works including Day Of Return (Ngày Về, 1986), In Chase Of The Windy Devil Gang (Truy Lùng Băng Quỷ Gió, 1992), The Fortune Seeker (Người Cầu May, 1990). Beyond feature films, he also directed several documentaries, such as Emperor Minh Mạng (Vua Minh Mạng, 1988), Hải Phòng, My Beloved City (Hải Phòng Thành Phố Tôi Yêu, 1990), Take You Back To Đuống River (Đưa Em về Sông Đuống, 1997), and The Pagodas Of Kinh Bắc (Chùa Kinh Bắc, 1999).
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Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.