Acting
Aug 15, 1949
Hanoi, Vietnam
Tất Bình
Acting
Biography
Tất Bình (full name Đặng Tất Bình, b. 16 August 1949 in Hanoi) is a Vietnamese actor and director, and the former director of the Feature Film Studio 1. Before starting his career in film, he worked as a theater actor and a voice actor. Tất Bình began gaining recognition through his first role onscreen, as inspector Phương in the film "The Last Hope" (Hy vọng cuối cùng, d. Trần Phương, 1981). He later co-directed with Trần Phương in the film "One Who Looks for a Forgotten past" (Người đi tìm dĩ vãng, 1992); then went on to direct the TV feature "The Notebook of Life" (Cuốn sổ ghi đời, 1994). In 1998, he made "Moon on Foreign Land" (Trăng trên đất khách), a Vietnamese-Russian co-production and the first Vietnamese film to focus on people working and living far from their home country. In 2002, Tất Bình released "The Backstage Slap" (Cái tát sau cánh gà), which became one of the two Vietnamese entries into the 47th Asia-Pacific Film Festival. He continues to act and direct in the years following.
Feature Films (20)
Returning to Vietnam after many years of studying abroad, a doctorate in atomic force Thai Duong entered an unimaginable reality. Many funny situations took place in his family when he was pondering over choosing a job in a new environment. Thai Duong was tricked into losing money, and his father and brother Loc Ton performed a risky mission to earn money: buying liquidated bombs.
Money, Money!
To faces many difficulties working as the director of the A1 hydropower project. Workers do not believe in leadership, so they quit their jobs. To boldly proposes a new way of doing business, paying attention to workers' lives and improving technology. The workers believe in him, returning to the construction site with a new attitude. Han, To's friend reports to the Minister about him with bad intentions, spreading news about his relationship with female engineer Thu Hien. To overcomes those barriers by working hard. The Minister has created all conditions for him to be creative and work.
River Of Desire
The year is 1950 and an English couple, Louise and Michael, have arrived in French-occupied Indochina to cover a story on a French-owned rubber plantation. They are to be the guests of the enigmatic plantation overseer, Daniel, and his beautiful yet difficult daughter Viola, at their elegant, decaying villa amid a tropical jungle. Michael and Louise hope that some time spent working in an exotic location will help reignite the passion in their floundering marriage. Instead they become unwittingly involved in the personal, sexual and political tensions of their hosts. Daniel is desperate to hold onto a way of life no longer possible in a country struggling for independence, bringing him into conflict with not only his daughter but also with his adopted country.
Traps
At the close of the Sino-Vietnamese border war, a journalist travels to Lạng Sơn in northern Vietnam—the hometown of his former girlfriend—to report on the situation there.
The Town Within Reach
The dynamics of a Vietnamese rural village change when an urban woman returns to the village she originally belonged to and begins a love triangle.
Nostalgia for the Countryside
Melodrama set in South Vietnam in the 1970s. Before liberation, Kha and Hien were in love but prevented from marrying by rigid class distinctions. After the war, Kha returns home with the rank of lieutenant colonel and finds Hien has lost her fortune and her status. Kha decides to protect Hien to repay his ‘debt’ of love to her.
Debt of love
In early-80s' Hanoi, a director of a state-owned factory welcomes his wife, a journalist, into a changed home after she spent some time away. As she struggles to make sense of their new wealth, he struggles to avoid embezzlement charges by a poor inspector—who turns out to be an old friend of hers.
The Last Hope
In colonial Vietnam, dashing French naval captain Jean-Baptiste, wealthy plantation owner Éliane Devries, and her adopted Vietnamese daughter Camillevare form the three points of a cross-cultural romantic triangle. As the struggle against European imperialism sweeps Indochina, Jean-Baptiste and Camille have to choose sides and Éliane faces the emotionally difficult challenge of raising the child of her daughter and ex-lover.
Indochine
A family living in poverty faces financial difficulties while striving to educate their daughters. The mother resorts to extraordinary measures to procure the traditional silk dresses needed for her kids to attend school.
The White Silk Dress
In early 20th century, a Vietnamese aristocratic socialite falls in love with a poor scholar though her father, a powerful governor, is determined to separate them, even with extreme measures.
Lady of the Flowers
A young wife awaits the return of her husband from the war. But when he arrives, mutilated and sick, she is repulsed.
Love and Distance
A soldier (Hien) survives the war and comes back to live with his brother's family (Tien). He can't seem to adjust to civilian life after the war and feels increasingly alienated from other people, whom he finds calculating, selfish and materialistic.
Brothers
Television & Series (8)
Inspired by the bribery and corruption scandal during the COVID-19 pandemic in Vietnam.
Đấu Trí
Not knowing her lover had in fact left her to live in another country, a woman devotes her time to caring for his suffering twin brother in the sanatorium.
Sweetness and Deception
After a near-death experience, a man is suddenly gifted with the ability to see the exact day a person will die. Knowing that his mother will soon pass away, he makes a desperate bargain to carry out Death’s deeds in exchange for her life.
