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Filmmaker · Vietnam

Bạch Diệp

Died in 2013

Nguyễn Thanh Tâm, who signs herself Bạch Diệp, was born in 1929 in Hanoi into a family of photographers. Raised by nuns in Hải Phòng, she joined the Viet Minh at sixteen, was active in women's organisations, then joined the party's main daily newspaper in 1955. From 1959 she followed the directing courses opened by the ministry with Soviet specialists, graduated in 1963 and joined the Hanoi fiction film studio, where she made films until 1992. She died in Hanoi on 17 August 2013.

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