Pao's Story (2006)

Name: Pao's Story
Genre: Drama
Released: 2006-01-01

1h 38m

Running Time

Plot.

Set in a breath-taking primitive landscape in the mountainous provinces of Vietnam, the film tells the story of a Hmong tribe girl named Pao. She was raised by her stepmother, for her real mother left her when she was little. One day, her stepmother dies in an accident, and she begins to track down her birth mother. But her journey turns out to disclose an unsealed sentimental drama of the family in the past.

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Cast & Crew.

Do Thi Hai Yen

Pao

Hoa Thuy Do

Thanh Kha Ly

Nhu Quynh

Hung Tran

Cinematography

Trung Quoc

Music

Cordelia Beresford

Cinematography

Thien Dao Nguyen

Music

Ngo Quang Hai

Director / Screenplay

Tat Binh Dang

Producer

Tony Norton

Editor

Do Bich Thuy

Story

Tất Bình

Producer

Media.

Details.

Release Date
January 1, 2006

Original Name
Chuyện của Pao

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 38m

Genres
Drama

Last updated: 2025-02-09

Wiki.

Story of Pao or Pao's Story (Vietnamese: Chuyện của Pao) is a 2006 Vietnamese film. It stars Đỗ Thị Hải Yến who also starred in The Quiet American, and was directed and written by her husband Ngô Quang Hải. It is set among the Hmong people of North Vietnam. The film had premiered in the First Films World Competition section of the 30th Montreal World Film Festival. It also won four Golden Kite Prizes (the Oscars of Vietnam).