Phạm Kỳ Nam

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1928-06-27

Deathday 1984-03-03 (55 years old)

Place of Birth Hanoï, French Indochina [now Vietnam]

Also Known As Phạm Hiếu Dân, Ки Нам Фам, Фам Ки Нам, Ky Nam Pham, 范其南

Phạm Kỳ Nam

Biography

Pham Ky Nam (June 27, 1928 – March 3, 1984) was a feature film and documentary director considered one of the pioneers of Vietnamese revolutionary cinema. As the first director from North Vietnam to receive formal training abroad, he began his directing career with the film Chung mot dong song . This was not only the first feature film from North Vietnam after 1954 but also the first feature film of Vietnamese revolutionary cinema. After that, his name was associated with a series of early feature films of Vietnamese revolutionary cinema as well as documentaries on the subject of President Ho Chi Minh . With his contributions to Vietnamese cinema since its inception, he was posthumously awarded the State Prize for Literature and Arts by the Vietnamese government in 2007 and the title of People's Artist in 2012.

Known For

Director

1978
Chom và Sa

as Director

1971
1969
1965
Sea Of Fire

as Director

1963
Miss Tu Hau

as Director

1960
The Memento

as Director

1959
On the Same River

as Director

Writer

1978
Chom và Sa

as Writer

1969