7.2 /10 1 Votes
Initial release 1 October 2010 Cast Nhat Kim Anh | 7.3/10 Director Dao Ba Son | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nominations Vietnam Film Festival Award for Best Art Design - Feature film Awards Vietnamese Golden Kite Award for Best Feature Film Similar The Prince and the Pagoda B, The Floating Lives, Hiep si mu, Story of Pao, The Buffalo Boy |
Long Thành Cầm Giả Ca is a 2010 Vietnamese film rewritten from Nguyễn Du's poem Long Thành Cầm Giả Ca for the Millennial Anniversary of Hanoi.
Plot
Nguyễn Du meets a musician and they fall in love. But he already has a wife, and doesn't want to take her even when he meets her several times and even has sex with her later. He meets her when she is old, feeling sorry, writes a poem for her, and she jumps into a well that nobody wants to drink the water later.
References
The Song About a Musician in Thang Long Citadel Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA