Dat Kho the Film starring Trinh Cong Son

Trinh Cong Son (1939-2001), beloved Vietnamese anti-war songwriter and posthumous recipient of the 2004 World Peace Music Awards once starred what may be his only acting role in a full-length dramatic feature film which has just been released this past May. "Dat Kho" Land of Sorrows (www.createspace.com/225161) stars Trinh Cong Son and was directed by Ha Thuc Can, the former CBS cameraman who covered the conflict in Vietnam. It also stars Bich Hop, Yuan Ha, Van Quynh, and Luu Nguyen Dot. Dat Kho - The Film This Vietnamese, English-subtitled film dramatizes the effect of the Vietnam War on a single South Vietnamese family, the inner conflict of decisions by each member of the family whether to remain in vietnam or leave with the imminent advance and fall of Hue and eventual fall of Vietnam. Dat Kho is a story of the love of family, love of homeland, love of the culture and language of Vietnam and the ethereal love of the ingenue daughter for her fiance, foiled by the antagonistic forces of the ever-present war. It is thought-provoking, and at the same time seems directly related to present day conflicts such as the Gulf War and Iraq in challenging the reasons for foreign involvement in essentially a civil war and addressing the lessons learned or that should have been learned. About Trinh Cong Son, from From VietnamLit.org: In 1973, he starred in a film, Dat Kho [Land of Sorrows], which compressed three seminal events of the Vietnam War: (1) the Buddhist uprising in Hue during 1965; (2) the Tet Offensive in 1968; and (3) the 1972 "Summer of Fire" (mùa hè ð? l?a). It includes real footage of refugees fleeing the North Vietnamese' Easter Offensive of 1972. Steven Hunter of the Washington Post comments: "A fictional family melodrama [...] it follows the course of the war as it implodes the life of five members of a family in Hue, including a draft dodger and a ranger captain. Those explosions in the background? Well, let's put it this way -- special effects courtesy of the North Vietnamese regular army." This film--the only one ever directed by Hà Thúc C?n, a cameraman previously with CBS, now an art dealer with a gallery in Singapore--had its first commercial showing at Paris' Orient Theater in 1980 and its first US showing in the Fall of 1996 at the American Film Institute's Kennedy Center location in Washington D.C.; then at The University of Maryland and George Mason University as part of the Asian American International Film Festival that Ðinh T? Bích Thúy coordinated for the Greater Washington D.C. area. Ðat Kho was banned in South Vietnam before 1975 and in all of Vietnam since.myspace layouts :: Get this layout .