Director: Dang Nhât Minh
Script: Dang Nhat Minh
Cinematographer: Vu Duc Tung
Script: Tran Anh Hoa, Nguyen Viet Nga
Music: Dang Huu Phuc
Sound: Tran Kim Thinh
Cast: Bui Bai Binh, Nguyen Lan Huong, Pham Thu Thuy, Thao Le Thi Huong, Hua Do, Pham Khac Lam
Production: Youth Studio
Nguyen Thuy Vinh
Dang Nhat Minh
64, Ba Trien Hanoi - Vietnam
Distribution:
D’Vision
19 rue Marbeuf
75008 Paris
France
Tel: 0033 1.47.20.47.52
Fax: 0033 1.47.20.02.77
Year: 2000
35 mm, Colour, 100 min
OV Vietnamese with French Subtitles
Hoa, is about fifty and works as a model in Hanoi Fine Arts School. When he was a boy, he fell from the guava tree outside their family house and ever since he has kept the mental age of a thirteen-year-old boy and has been living in his memories. The house he used to live in with his parents had been given for government use before it was purchased by a wealthy high dignitary. His parents are now dead and his brother lives abroad. Hoa shares a small flat with his sister . He keeps remembering the guava tree of his childhood and one day, breaks into the house that used to be his home. He is arrested by the police and released with his sister's intervention. The new occupant of the house has pity on him and decides to put him up. When her father comes back from an assignment, he is so furious that he has Hoa committed.
