Acting
Hanoi, Vietnam
Quốc Trọng
Acting
Biography
Quốc Trọng (b. Trần Quốc Trọng, Hanoi) is a Vietnamese film actor and director. A graduate from the second acting class of the University of Theater and Performing Arts of Hanoi, he began working as an actor of the Vietnam Feature Film Studio, appearing in films since the late 70s. Before becoming famous nationwide for his role as "Red-haired" Xuan in the adapted series "Dumb Luck" (Số Đỏ, 1990), Quốc Trọng had participated in many films, leaving the strongest impression through these roles: Long in "The Story of Coconut Village" (Câu chuyện làng dừa, 1977, d. Bạch Diệp), the young soldier in "Town within reach" (Thị xã trong tầm tay, 1983, d. Đặng Nhật Minh), Lê Văn Bờ in the TV series "Crime and Passion" (Tội và tình, d. Châu Huế), Thằng in "The Storm" (Giông tố, 1990, d. Nguyễn Mạnh Lân), Triều in "The Curse of the River" (Lời nguyền của dòng sông, 1992, d. Khải Hưng)...
Feature Films (3)
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
An elderly couple from Vinh and their grandchild takes a coach to Viet Tri The passengers face numerous harassments during the journey, but luckily a youth volunteer and a discharged soldier are determined to help them.
A Stormy Journey
Television & Series (7)
The story of friendship revolves around a group of children in Mây Village, where Tú, a lively, mischievous girl who loves fairness, always wants to protect the territory and inhabitants of the 'headquarters' she established. Nearly 20 years later, Tú is busy working as an operations director at a company founded by her older brother, Viễn, and their old friends. And by chance, when the group returns to Mây Village, the secrets of the past are revealed, awakening memories that were thought to be buried forever.
1 Millimeter From You
The sexually repressed widow Doan comes to play tennis in the court where sly, lewd orphan Xuan (nicknamed Red-haired Xuan for his sunburnt hair) is working as a ball boy. Their encounter that day would change Xuan’s life forever, as the widow introduced him to an entirely different world of the hypocritical and decadent petite bourgeoisie class, a condition of “Westernized” middle-class Hanoians under French colonial rule in the 1920s. An 8-part series adapted from Vu Trong Phung’s classic satire.
Dumb Luck
In 1960s war-ridden North Vietnam, a provincial secretary clashes with the Politburo over his plan to abolish the centralised farming co-op system.
