Hà Văn Cầu

Acting

Biography

Hà Văn Cầu (c.1927 - 26th March 2016) was a Vietnamese ethnomusicologist, playwright, actor and Hán Nôm scholar. Renowned for his preservation efforts towards traditional Vietnamese performance arts, he archived an extensive body of plays written in Hán Nôm and campaigned to introduce these arts into theatre school. He was also an accomplished playwright, having authored several popular plays with hints of influence from chèo singing.

Known For

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Dumb Luck

The sexually repressed widow Doan comes to play tennis in the court where sly, lewd orphan Xuan (nicknamed Red-haired Xuan for his sunburnt hair) is working as a ball boy. Their encounter that day would change Xuan's life forever, as the widow introduced him to an entirely different world of the hypocritical and decadent petite bourgeoisie class, a condition of "Westernized" middle-class Hanoians under French colonial rule in the 1920s. An 8-part series adapted from Vu Trong Phung's classic satire.

Filmography

1990

Dumb Luck

as The Fortune-Teller