Minh Tâm

Sound

April 7, 1931 (88 years)

† November 5, 2019

Hanoï, French Indochina [now Vietnam]

Biography

Minh Tâm (7th April 1941 - 5th November 2019) was a Vietnamese foley artist and sound director. With over 2000 credits in sound making, he was the chief foley artist at the Vietnam Feature Film Studio from its inception in the 1970s to his retirement in late 1990s, and oversaw sound designing in most of the Studio’s productions up until 2011.

Filmography

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Wild Reeds

A soldier returns home after the war, only to finds out his family thinks he is dead, and his wife has married another man.

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When the Tenth Month Comes

In the final days of the war, Duyên faces a daily struggle to take care of her young son and ailing father-in-law, all the while hiding from them the fact that her husband has recently been killed in battle.

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The Pot From A Past Life

An old man chances upon a ceramic teapot while working as a gravedigger. Fervently believing that the teapot is a valuable piece of antique, he risks life and death to protect it against the concern of his family.

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The Forgotten Proposal

An engineer devises a plan that will help a farm improve its staggering business, but is dismissed the farm’s manager.

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Return Day

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Vanishing Mist

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Ephemeral Fate

The battle for political power in the Trịnh clan continues after the death of Lord Trịnh Sâm in this sequel of "Night of Long Tri." The rivals are two famous concubines of Trịnh Sâm: Dương Thị Ngọc Hoan and Đặng Thị Huệ.

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Little Stars

Two talented swimmers from a small village are invited by a factory to compete for their team in national tournaments, but soon discover they are being used as a publicity ploy by the factory.

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Once Upon a Time in Vu Dai Village

Thứ, a teacher in an impoverished village of French occupied Vietnam, witnesses the daily tragedies and hardships his neighborhood has to endure. A joint adaptation of three of Nam Cao's classic works: the short stories "Chi Pheo", "Old Hạc" (Lão Hạc) and the novel "Corroded Life" (Sống mòn).

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Quiet Night

Quiet Night is an old Vietnamese film produced in 1984 by director Tran Phuong with the participation of actors People's Artist Nhu Quynh, Bui Bai Binh, and Tran Phuong

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The General Retires

A general who devoted his life to the communist cause, retires, only to find that his household is in disarray, his grown children money-grubbing, and Vietnamese society far from the rosy picture of equality he'd imagined he'd helped make it.

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We Break Up In Summer

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The Part of Life I Want to Forget

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A Love Will Come

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Swept Away

Kiều Trinh, a French-Vietnamese journalist, returns to Vietnam with her husband and daughter to visit his relatives in a seaside town. Here, she meets her husband's uncle, an idiosyncratic neurosurgeon. As the days go by, Kiều Trinh discovers the new mysterious in-law is fascinated with her, and has ulterior plans for her family.

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89th Minute

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Punishment

Follows a South Vietnamese soldier during the fall of Saigon in 1975.

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Trapped

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The Orange Peal

An ex-fighter pilot renounces life and becomes a monk to seek salvation after the tragic death of his wife upon giving birth to a malformed fetus, which he blames on his mysterious illness. One day, a friend in combat visits him and sheds light on his miseries.

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The Gamble

Don Duong stars as a truck driver who falls in love with a young student girl in a roadside border canteen. Unsure about him, she returns to school but finally decides to throw in her lot with him. This decision forms the gambling motif in the film, a decision which causes her grief, when she later becomes the subject of his gamble.