Nguyễn Hồng Sến

Nguyễn Hồng Sến (1933-1995) was born in Mộc Hóa, in Long An province, and was one of the first graduating class of cameramen trained at the film school of the North. His first documentary won a prize in Moscow as early as 1959. He went back south in 1964 and filmed the war at close quarters for about ten years. He moved into directing in 1978, one of only two Vietnamese cameramen to have made this change of profession, and died in 1995.

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• CinemaCánh đồng hoangNguyễn Hồng Sến · 1979Cinema