Love Case | |
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Vietnamese | Tình án |
Hán-Nôm | 情 案 |
Directed by | Võ Việt Hùng |
Screenplay by |
Võ Đắc Dự Hồ Văn Trung (novel) |
Produced by | Nguyễn Văn Vạn |
Starring |
Huỳnh Anh Tuấn Thiên Hương Quế Phương Thanh Trúc Trương Minh Quốc Thái |
Cinematography | Đỗ Đức Long Quốc Việt |
Edited by | Nguyễn Trọng Nghĩa |
Music by | Ngọc Sơn |
Production company | |
Distributed by |
HCTV VLRT |
Release date |
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Running time | 45 minutes x 23 chaps |
Country | Vietnam |
Languages | Vietnamese French |
Love Case ( Vietnamese: Tình án, Chinese: 案例的愛情) is a 2008 Vietnamese telefilm adapted from Hồ Văn Trung's July 1941 novel Cư kỉnh (居璟). The film was produced by Ho Chi Minh City Television and directed by Võ Việt Hùng. [1]
The film is set in Cần Thơ's village of Cochinchina in the 1930s. It features a family of district chief Mr.Hàm Tân (Huỳnh Anh Tuấn), in a time when romance novels infiltrated. Neighbour and writer Chí Cao (Trương Minh Quốc Thái) is killed with his paper-knife, but no one knows who his killer is. Suspects include killer Quận (Tấn Beo), Thị Lịnh (Hoàng Minh Minh), Mrs. District-chief Hàm Tân (Thiên Hương) and Túy (Quế Phương).
Shot on location at Gò Công, Saigon, Thủ Dầu Một, Sa Đéc, Trà Vinh, Bến Tre and Da Lat in 2008. The location used as the house of District-chief Hàm Tân was the famous address of Gò Công, its name was Prefecture-chief Hải's Oldhouse. [2]
and : Cao Kim Loan, Bích Thảo, Trần Ngọc Lìn, Lê Minh Phụng, Hồ Vân, Ngọc Tâm, Ngọc Hồng, Ngọc Phi, Kim Cương, Kim Lan, Thu Hà, Âu Ngọc Thủy, Thanh Vân, Phú Quý, Minh Hoa, Hoàng Oanh, Ngọc Ngự, Thanh Hồng, and Minh Trung
Love Case received the Golden Ochna Integerrima Award for best film director (awarded to Võ Việt Hùng) in 2009. [4]