People's Artist Thuy Van - Legend of the movie Floating Wind: Dies of cancer, many hidden corners of life are emotional

Confirming with Thanh Nien newspaper, the son of People's Artist Thuy Van confirmed that she died at 2:20 am on March 16 at the hospital, at the age of 84, after a period of fighting rectal cancer.

The burial ceremony took place at 10 a.m. on the same day.

People's Artist Thuy Van's funeral was held at his home in Ward 11, Binh Thanh District, Ho Chi Minh City. The funeral ceremony is scheduled to take place at 7 a.m. on March 19.

Sharing with Dan Tri newspaper reporter, Anda - the daughter of artist Thuy Van - said that she discovered the disease in June 2022. By that time, the cancer had spread to the lungs. "My mother is old, but she passed away peacefully despite her illness," Anda said.

Sharing with Thanh Nien newspaper, artist Thuy Van's son was sad when his mother left the temporary world: "As a child, you and I have been educated by our mother to become good people and contribute to society in Vietnam. From the perspective of an artist trained from the first course, my mother fulfilled her responsibilities. Mother passed away, the family was very sad, but we are also proud to have a mother who made small contributions to the background. Vietnamese cinema".

People's Artist Thuy Van was born in 1940, originally from Ninh Binh. In 1959, she attended the first acting class of the School of Theater and Cinema, at the same time as artists such as People's Artist Tra Giang, People's Artist Lam Toi, People's Artist Tran Phuong.

In 1966, she participated in the film Floating Wind directed by Huy Thanh, adapted from the play of the same name by author Dao Hong Cam. This is the role that marks the first cinematic touch of actor Thuy Van. The work put her name in the ranks of famous actors of Vietnamese revolutionary cinema in the 60s and 70s of the last century.

Floating Wind is a film that changed the career of an actress in the life of People's Artist Thuy Van, making her a leading actress of the Vietnamese revolutionary cinema in the 1960s.

The film The Wind, directed by Huy Thanh, filmed in 1963, is considered by the cinema world as the first film of the revolutionary cinema about the Vietnam War. The film won the Golden Lotus award (predecessor to today's Golden Kite) for the Feature Film category at the first Vietnam Film Festival.

The film Floating Wind is one of the milestones marking the success of the first generation of actors from the School of Dramatic Arts such as The Anh, Thuy Van, Lam Toi, Thanh Loan...

In "Burning the Wind", Thuy Van takes on the character Van. The beauty and indomitable virtues of Southern women through her acting make viewers flutter. In the film, she played a series of extremely cruel "hands" by the enemy. The climax is when the character is wrapped in alcohol gauze bandages on 10 fingers and then set on fire. In front of the blazing fire in her hands, her firm eyes and unchanging face scared the enemy...

When the forest fire burns on 10 fingers, the character's face does not change, his eyes still exude a strong look that makes the enemy fear.

When she was alive, People's Artist Thuy Van once confided that every time she thinks back to the scene above, she still shudders about her own recklessness. When filming this scene, her 10 fingers were wrapped in a layer of gauze and then overlapped with a layer of plaster, the outermost layer of cotton soaked in kerosene. This scene was not rehearsed, but "shot in one shot".

"I still don't understand why I was so enthusiastic at that time when I had never been rehearsed. The crew sent a person holding a large bucket of water to stand next to me, when the director shouted cut, I immediately dipped my hand into it. Now acting. I'm sure I can't do it," said People's Artist Thuy Van.

This segment made a deep impression on audiences for generations, becoming a symbol of courage, courage, indomitable sacrifice spirit of Vietnamese women and selfless artistic labor spirit of Vietnamese women. film artist.

Having shared about the film, People's Artist Thuy Van said it was very difficult when filming the film. Before filming, it took actors several months to penetrate reality. When playing the role in the movie Floating Wind, she had to go to Quy Cao farm (Tien Lang district, Hai Phong city) to learn the way of life of the Southerners who gathered in the North.

She learned how to row a boat, go to the monkey bridge... In the movie, there is a scene where People's Artist Thuy Van carries a child across the monkey bridge, but luckily completed it smoothly. Eating and living conditions on that day were also limited.

Another impressive scene in the film is the scene of Van rowing a boat on the river in the midst of thunderstorms and lightning. The whole crew had to wait more than a month to film this scene. Rain can be created by water cannons, but thunderstorms and lightning cannot be mechanically affected, so the crew waits for a real thunderstorm to film.

"The boat swayed in the wind, thunder pounded overhead, and I still had to act with a joyful face, steady at the helm just like the main spirit of the film," the artist said.

This film also allowed her to meet President Ho Chi Minh and talk about the film.

Sharing a deep memory with the movie-loving audience, she said: "Back then, my house was on Chau Long Street, Hanoi. One day a young man came to my mother and asked: 'Uncle, is this the real thing? Thuy Van's house?' Seeing me, he introduced his Vietnamese name, from the South. He had to walk for six months to come out just because of a message from Southern mothers: 'I'm going out. Then, remember to find Van and tell her that you recognize her as a child of Ben Tre. You wait for the day of reunification, go to the capital to visit President Ho Chi Minh and welcome her in as your daughter'. I heard that in a raid by the enemy, my mother had heroically sacrificed. I was silent, tears kept flowing."

In addition to the legendary work Floating in the Wind, People's Artist Thuy Van also participated in many other films such as Forest of Snakes, Two Mothers, Far and Near, Floating Village, Black Vortex, 17th Parallel of Days and Nights, August Star, Child adopted child...

In 1985, she won the Best Actress award at the Vietnam Film Festival for her role in Far and Near. In 1988, the movie Black Vortex, directed by the artist, also won a special prize at the 8th Vietnam Film Festival.

Not only is she known as an actress, she also participates in movies as a director and composes poetry. She published a collection of poems "Every sweet drop of life" which was loved by poetry lovers across the country. In 2019, artist Thuy Van was awarded the title of People's Artist.

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