Don't Burn

Don't Burn (2009)

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DON'T BURN! IN THERE IS FIRE ALREADY.

In the spring of 2005, a mother living in Hanoi receives a diary of her late daughter, a young doctor working at a field hospital during the war. Kept for over thirty years by an American veteran, the diary is an account of her life spanning two years, from April 1968 until her death in June 1970.

Date of release
2009-04-01
TMDB
6.2 / 10 (4)
Runtime
1h 40m
Genres
History, Drama, War
Director
Dang Nhat Minh

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 0 · Nominations: 1

Don't Burn is a 2009 Vietnamese historical drama film about Đặng Thùy Trâm written and directed by Đặng Nhật Minh. Starring Tina Duong, Minh Huong and Ben Rindner, the film premiered at the 19th Fukuoka International Film Festival in Japan, winning the audience prize. The film was released in Vietnam in late April 2009 and showed at the ASEM international film festival in Hanoi in mid-May 2009. It was also selected as Vietnam's entry for Best International Feature Film at the 82nd Academy Awards.

Production

At the end of 2005, Dang Thuy Tram's diary became a phenomenon in Vietnam. After a visit to the family of martyr Dang Thuy Tram, the idea of making a movie about Ms. Tram began to form in director Dang Nhat Minh's mind. He wanted to make a Vietnam War film different from the ones made before in Vietnam, one where neither the "enemy" nor the "allies" sides were evil. The director expressed that "In the whirlpool of war, people are only victims".

Đặng Nhật Minh traveled to North Carolina in 2005 to meet Fred Whitehurst before writing the film. When asked what had impressed Fred most about the diary, he claimed it was the passage "Và ai có biết chăng ai/ Tình thương đã chắp cánh dài cho ta…" which translates to "And do you know/ Love has given us wings..." Returning to Hanoi, he began to write the script for the film, which was initially called "there is fire in this".

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