The First Love
(Moi Tinh Dau)

Not long before the end of the war, in a still occupied Saigon, two students, Ba Duy and Diem Huong (Nguyen Nhu Quynh) vow their mutual love to each other. But the young woman is forced to marry an American counsellor by her family, in order that she might save her father who is burdened with debt. Desperate Ba Duy abandons his studies and lets himself go into a downward, nihilist spiral. This portrait of a tormented youth met with huge, popular fervour when it was released. JB