Director: Lưu Trọng Ninh

Cast: NSND Thúy Hường, Vân Anh, Sao Chi, Hà Thanh, Ngọc Dung, Nam Phương, Thanh Cảnh, Trần Thị Huế, Hồng Thắm

Producer: Lê Hồng Sơn

Screenwriter: Nguyễn Quang Vinh

Director of Photography: NSND Nguyễn Hữu Tuấn, NSND Lý Thái Dũng

Art Designer: NSƯT Vũ Huy

Composer: Quốc Trung

Production Company: Hãng phim truyện Việt Nam

Year: 1997

Running time: 90 minutes

Awards: Golden Lotus Award at the 12th Vietnam Film Festival, 1999 A Prize from the Vietnam Cinema Association, 1997 B Prize from the Ministry of National Defense for Outstanding Vietnamese Literary and Artistic Works on National Defense and Armed Forces (1994–1999) Award from the Korean Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland at the Non-Aligned Movement International Film Festival, Pyongyang, 1988.

Synopsis

Based on a true event in 1968, the film recounts the heroic story of ten young female volunteers of Squad 4, Company 552, under the Youth Volunteer General Team, who gave their lives at Đồng Lộc Junction in Can Lộc District, Hà Tĩnh Province. A tribute to these courageous women, the film honors their selfless sacrifice for an ideal greater than themselves, at an age when their hearts still brimmed with dreams, youth, and the hope of a beautiful life ahead.

Director's biography

Lưu Trọng Ninh (born 1956) is an acclaimed Vietnamese film director. He is known for several important works including Ngã ba Đồng Lộc (1997), Bến không chồng (2001), Dốc tình (2005), and Khát Vọng Thăng Long (2010). He is the son of the celebrated poet, playwright, and writer Lưu Trọng Lư (1911–1991). Lưu Trọng Ninh received both the Golden Kite Award for Best Feature Film and Best Director for Khát Vọng Thăng Long in 2011. He also served as Chair of the Jury for the Feature Film category at the 17th Vietnam Film Festival.