His famous works include: Do You Still Remember or Have You Forgotten (1992), Night Love Song (1996), Wind Grave (2004)...; TV series such as Sweet and Deceitful (1996), Criminal Police (1999) (co-director), Village Ghost (2007) (co-director and screenwriter), Kinh Village Wind (2007)...

Few people know that People's Artist and Director Nguyen Huu Phan graduated with a degree in Literature and History from Hanoi Pedagogical University 1 in 1972. It was this literary background that helped him to develop a relationship with cinema as a director. In 1988, he graduated from the University of Theatre and Cinema, majoring in Film Directing.

After decades of working, he is an unofficial teacher on the set, an exemplary teacher of countless generations of directors, cameramen, actors... at the Hanoi University of Theatre and Cinema, the College of Television. Generations of students learned from him not only about expertise but also about a serious attitude towards work, how to treat people harmoniously, and adapt to circumstances...

During his career, he always wanted the young generation to know about the art of cinema in the simplest way, so that they could "talk" to cinema in the right way, avoiding misunderstandings due to lack of knowledge.

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Director Nguyen Huu Phan in a textbook experiment at school

His relationship witheducation once again came to him when the 2018 General Education Program included the content of Fine Arts Design, Stage and Cinema in the Fine Arts subject at the high school level. The Fine Arts textbook group invited him to participate in compiling this content. At that time, he was over 70 and had just recovered from a serious illness.

During the process of participating in and researching the subject program, he struggled with the duration of each content, which was more than 10 periods, how to write and organize the content so that it was easy to understand, teachers could teach and students could learn, as well as meet the goals set out in the program.

Many drafts with different organizational plans were written by him, then abandoned because according to him, they were too heavy, academic, and easily bored students. He wanted textbooks to not only provide knowledge but also be close, friendly, interesting, and a bridge for students to know, understand, and love this type of material, from which they would want to learn more deeply at higher levels...

After 4 years of participating in compiling textbooks, he and his colleagues completed 3 textbooks on Stage and Cinema Design for grades 10, 11, and 12. To complete this work, he did not hesitate to bring the compiled content to the experimental school to verify whether the content he wrote could be applied to teaching and learning practices, and what needed to be adjusted to make it better...

He also did not hesitate to be the most senior author in the group to listen to and absorb the comments and criticisms of his younger colleagues and members of the Evaluation Council, from which he considered and adjusted the compiled content to complete it, meet the conditions for evaluation and use in schools according to a strict process.

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Director Nguyen Huu Phan with teachers and students of the experimental class teaching content of Stage and Cinema Design, grade 10, Yen Lang High School, Hanoi

What he is most satisfied with after completing the work of compiling textbooks is that “theater and cinema”, even though only a very small aspect related to fine arts, will appear in the 2018 General Education Program. This will be an opportunity for many generations of students to approach the basic concepts of the 7th art form, and who knows, it will create positive changes in this field.

This April 15th, he has stopped all his temporary games to continue with new journeys, but his contributions to education will continue to accompany many future generations of the country.

Associate Professor, Dr. Dinh Gia Le (Chief Editor of Fine Arts Textbooks, book series Connecting Knowledge with Life)

Director, People's Artist Nguyen Huu Phan was born in 1948 in Hung Yen . He passed away at noon on May 22 at a hospital in Hanoi.

His funeral will take place at 10:45 a.m. on May 24 at the City Funeral Home, 125 Phung Hung (Hoan Kiem, Hanoi). The memorial service will take place at 12 p.m. the same day. Cremation will take place at the Van Dien Universe Crematorium, Thanh Tri, Hanoi.

Director of 'Dat va Nguoi', 'Ma Lang' - Nguyen Huu Phan passed away. Ms. Nguyen Dieu Trang - daughter of director Nguyen Huu Phan confirmed to VietNamNet that he passed away at 12:10 on May 22 at a hospital in Hanoi, at the age of 76.