The deserted valley /

Tanh (Nguyen Hau) is a kindly janitor at a simple school for one of the country's ethnic minorities. He's soft on one of the women teachers, Giao (Hong Anh), to the chagrin of the other, sulky Minh (Tuyet Hanh). One of the pupils, young peasant woman Mi (Thu Trang), falls for Hung (Trung D...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Pham Nhue, Giang (Director)
Format: Video
Language:Vietnamese
Language Notes:In Vietnamese.
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Privately Published, 2002.
Series:Asian film online, volume 2
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Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
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Summary:Tanh (Nguyen Hau) is a kindly janitor at a simple school for one of the country's ethnic minorities. He's soft on one of the women teachers, Giao (Hong Anh), to the chagrin of the other, sulky Minh (Tuyet Hanh). One of the pupils, young peasant woman Mi (Thu Trang), falls for Hung (Trung Dung), bathing in a nearby pool; devastated when she finds Giao is his lover, Mi tries to blacken the teacher's name. Pic is upfront about locals' take-it-or-leave-it attitude toward education, as well as the wavering conviction of the school's staff Tanh, who likes a drink or two, often thinks of packing it in. Melodrama is tightly held in check, replaced by a simmering sexuality that occasionally springs free in surprisingly explicit sequences.
Item Description:Title from resource description page (viewed June 09, 2015).
Physical Description:1 online resource (91 min.).
Playing Time:01:30:03