
Person
Nguyễn Khánh Dư
Directing
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- Sep 2, 1933
- Died
- Dec 3, 2007
- From
- Cao Bằng, French Indochina [now Vietnam]
Nguyễn Khánh Dư (September 2, 1933 – December 3, 2007) was a Vietnamese director and cinematographer. A war photographer for an information bureau during the 1st Indochina War, he began working as a documentary cinematographer in 1955. In 1959, he joined Vietnam Feature Film Studio and had his first feature film credit in Phạm Văn Khoa’s “Vườn cam”[Orange Garden] (1960). Despite lacking in professional training, Khánh Dư was widely regarded as one of the most influential cinematographers in early Vietnamese cinema. He worked on films such as "Chị Tư Hậu" [Mrs. Tu Hau] (1962) and "Biển lửa" [Sea of Fire] (1965) by Phạm Kỳ Nam, and won Best Cinematography at the 4th Vietnam Film Festival for his work in the feature film "Hai người mẹ" [Two Mothers] (1975) as well as the documentary "Thành phố lúc rạng đông" [The City at Sunrise] (1975). He began directing in 1976. His best known film is perhaps "Mẹ vắng nhà" [While Mother is Away] (1980), and many of his films focus on children as their subject.
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Mrs. Tư Hậu

The Young Soldier

Sea Of Fire

Two Mothers

While Mother Is Away

The City at Sunrise

No Horizon To Be Seen

Skylark in the City

The Foster Child

Birds Return

The Kids

Dã Tràng Reclaims The East Sea

An Early Autumn Day

Sand Cactus

The slope

Road Dust

Station
My Student is a Water God