Phạm Kỳ Nam

Biography

People’s Artist Pham Ky Nam (June 27, 1928 – March 3, 1984) was a Vietnamese director and screenwriter. One of the most influential pioneers in the 1960s Vietnamese revolutionary cinema, he received formal training at IDEHEC Paris and began his career at Vietnam Feature Film Studio by filming re-enactments of works written for theatre. In 1959, in collaboration with documentarist Nguyen Hong Nghi, he directed North Vietnam’s first feature film since the liberation from France and of the revoluti...