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Little Girl of Hanoi

Em bé Hà Nội

1974
1h 30min
Hải Ninh

“This was no fiction. This was a memory in motion.”

Synopsis

Little Girl of Hanoi (Em bé Hà Nội, 1974) is a powerful wartime drama by director Hải Ninh that follows a young girl, Ngọc Hà, as she searches for her father, a North Vietnamese soldier, after losing her mother and sister in the devastating Christmas Bombings. Shot amidst the real rubble of a bombed-out Hanoi, the film blends fiction and documentary realism to portray the human cost of war through the eyes of a child. With haunting black-and-white cinematography and emotionally charged performances, it stands as one of Vietnam’s most iconic and heartbreaking cinematic works.

Available on YouTube with English closed captions

Review

Little Girl of Hanoi

Directed by Hải Ninh and released in 1974, this haunting black-and-white drama follows a young girl, Ngọc Hà, wandering the war-torn streets of Hanoi in search of her father after the Christmas Bombings killed her mother and sister. It sounds simple, but the emotional weight it carries is anything but.

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