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Vietnamese film to show in Berlin
  • | VNS | August 16, 2011 10:02 AM

The award winning Dung Dot (Don\'t Burn) is set to be screened in front of German audiences on August 22 at the Viethaus (Vietnamese House) in Berlin.

A poster of Dung Dot

The 2008 movie by director Dang Nhat Minh, adapted from the 2005 Vietnamese best-seller Dang Thuy Tram\'s Diary, won the Golden Lotus, Best Script and Best Movie award as voted for by the media at the Vietnamese Film Festival in 2009.

The movie went on to be screened at 14 universities across the US in the same year while additionally winning the Viet Nam Cinematography Association\'s Golden Kite prize in 2010.

Following its Berlin screening next week, the audience will have the chance to talk with director Minh, whose movies have won many major cinematography awards in Viet Nam and abroad.

Dang Thuy Tram\'s Diary, penned by Dr Dang Thuy Tram in the 1960s while working in a field hospital in the central province of Quang Ngai, lays bare her emotional turmoil and personal aspirations before being killed by US troops in June 1970 at the age of 27.

The diary was found and preserved by an American soldier, Fred Whitehurst, 35 years before he donated it to the Vietnam Center and Archive at Texas Tech University. Officials, with the aid of veteran Tom Engelmann and American writer Lady Borton, were able to locate Tram\'s family and return the diary in 2005.
 

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