Luy Hoa is a film series that recreates 60 days and nights (from December 19, 1946 to February 17, 1947) when our army and people fought bravely to protect the capital, opening the resistance war against the French of the entire nation. 60 days and nights of determination to die for the Fatherland: 60 days and nights we see "flowers on the ramparts". The work takes readers back to the unforgettable days, witnessing the evacuation of people and the people holding guns to block the enemy's advance. With the transitions through the pen of writer Nguyen Huy Tuong, we see again the streets of Hanoi with Hang Gai, Hang Dao, Dong Xuan market, ... and encounter the people of Hanoi from all classes and professions. They fight, they work, they love each other. In particular, the book also has photos of the manuscript pages of Luy Hoa , the first printed version with Van Cao drawing the cover, along with the diary of writer Nguyen Huy Tuong recording the process of composing Luy Hoa and Living forever with the Capital. In Luy Hoa, there is an intersection between the fierceness and intensity of fighting and the unique elegance of Hanoi. Amidst the sound of gunshots, the sound of grenades, when the holes in the walls of houses connect the will of the Capital, there are still kisses, banh chung and peach blossoms, the sound of music and couples in love. All are expressed through a refined yet playful writing style, simple yet talented.
Luy Hoa will help readers recall the glorious past of the country, understand and love Hanoi more, through the eyes of a person who devoted all his heart and soul to writing about the Capital. The film Luy Hoa as well as the novel Living Forever with the Capital , published after the author's death, are the result of a process in which Nguyen Huy Tuong devoted all his heart and soul to the topic of Hanoi, from the beginning of 1957 until the last days of his life, the summer of 1960. Sharing the same theme of the fight to protect the Capital, sharing the same inspiration about the land and people of Hanoi, the two works complement and respond to each other to become an organic whole. In particular, the film Luy Hoa is not only considered a possible framework for the unfinished novel, but also has enough literary qualities to exist as a literary work with its own writing style: refined but no less free-spirited, simple but no less talented. Nguyen Huy Tuong's diary recorded quite thoroughly the process of writing these two works. Writer Nguyen Tuan shared: "I was an active person among those who encouraged Nguyen Huy Tuong to write this film. I happily told Tuong: 'You just write. Whenever filming, I would like to play a role. You are a Hanoian, you make a film about Hanoi protecting the capital; I am a Hanoian, I also have the interest to play a role in it. Playing a main role or a supporting role, a middle role or a flattering role, I don't care much. As long as I contribute to it, contribute myself to a creation of my friend... Your name is on the poster, you give me a line of text called 'kê trong'". Nguyen Huy Tuong smiled, after that smile, Luy Hoa completed the manuscript. (Nguyen Tuan - De nong Luy Hoa) Excerpt from the diary of writer Nguyen Huy Tuong: “Tuan went to the Northwest. Talked about his script. Besides fighting, he had to evoke the scenery of Hanoi. The scenery of Hanoi was so poetic, so ancient, of a bygone era. But it was about to end on the path of building socialism. He had to record images of Hanoi, of people, of scenery, of streets. Because it was about to disappear. And it would have an effect in the country. Abroad. In Warsaw. In the Khmer, when the people of the South came to see it: there might be people crying. Tuan wanted to encourage him. He advised him to focus on movies. Don't think about novels yet. And deep down, he agreed with his friend's advice.” (Nguyen Huy Tuong's diary, September 10, 1954) In the preface of the book, Professor Phong Le wrote: “After finishing Living Forever with the Capital - Volume 1, about the first three days of the National Resistance War in Hanoi, Nguyen Huy Tuong wrote Luy Hoa in between, and finished this story on June 15, 1959, when his serious illness was showing, and only a year later, on July 25, 1960, the writer passed away. It must be said that Nguyen Huy Tuong had a tremendous working capacity in this final period, a period when he had almost devoted all his vitality and energy to the theme of the resistance war of the army and people of the Capital, for a Hanoi that was always firmly in his mind throughout his artistic creation journey, from historical stories and plays written before 1945 such as Vu nhu To, Long Tri Night Festival ... through the play Those Who Stay written about the people of Hanoi at the same time as him, at the beginning of the resistance war against the French ... And only now is the time when he can look back at Hanoi in its clear features thanks to a time lag, with a hint of nostalgia and history”. In its effort to create conflicts, both external and internal, in its ability to change scenes flexibly, Luy Hoa is worthy of being made into a film. Unfortunately, Nguyen Huy Tuong has only read the proof of the film's story on his hospital bed, and the audience he is aiming for is still temporarily content with being... readers. But paradoxically, Luy Hoa - the film's story has its own appeal as a work to read. The work was published by Tre Publishing House on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Liberation of the Capital ((October 10, 1954 - October 10, 2024).

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