Musician At The Dragon Citadel
Feature Film/ Vietnam/ 120 min/2010
Director: People’s Artist Đào Bá Sơn
Screenwriter: Văn Lê
Director of Photography: Đặng Phúc Yên
Music Composer: Quốc Trung
Art designer: Nguyễn Trung Phan – Nguyễn Mạnh Đức
Cast: Quách Ngọc Ngoan, Trần Lực, Bùi Bài Bình, Nhật Kim Anh, Thy Nhung
Production: Công ty TNHH MTV Phim Giải Phóng
Synopsis:
The Musician at the Dragon Citadel, produced for the 1000th year anniversary festival of the city of Thang Long-Hanoi, set in the period of late XVIII – early XIX century. The story revolves around the glamourous love story between To Nhu (written name of the great poet Nguyen Du) and Cam, a beautiful singer famous across the city of Thang Long, spanning from adolescence to middle-age.
The love story is intertwined with a hisorical period of great upheaval within Thang Long itself, the changing of feudal dynasties in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Awards:
One of three films awarded the National Award for Literature and Arts (2017). At the 17th Vietnam Film Festival (2011), the film was awarded: Certificate of Merit from the Jury; Best Art Design; Best Actor. At the Vietnam Cinema Association Awards (2010), the film won the following awards: Golden Kite for Best Feature Film; Best Screenwriter; Best Art Design. Notably, at the 1st Vietnam International Film Festival – 2010 (VINIFF I), Actress Nhat Kim Anh in the role of Cam won the Best Actress award.
Director’s biography:
Director and People’s Artist Dao Ba Son was born in 1952. He graduated from the Acting Department, Class 2, at Hanoi Academy of Theater and Cinema in 1977, and also completed several short-term training programs in screenwriting and directing documentary films. He also taught at many universities for multiple years.
Filmography:
Gold Seeker (1989), Ms. Dung (1990), White Farewell, Dark Stairs (1998), The Cloud Doesn’t Stop (2009), The Musician at the Dragon Citadel (2010)
