Love Tie

Love Tie or Time Before Military Service Day^[1] (Vietnamese: Tơ tình, hay là Trước ngày quân dịch) is a 1963 South Vietnamese 35mm black-and-white film directed by Lê Mộng Hoàng.

Love Tie
Directed by	Lê Mộng Hoàng
Screenplay by	Nguyễn Thành Châu
Based on	Musical play Time Before the Military Service Day by Quốc Hưng and Lê Khanh
Produced by	Lưu Trạch Hưng
Starring	La Thoại Tân Thẩm Thúy Hằng Mai Ly Năm Châu Thanh Thúy
Music by	Phạm Duy Lê Thương
Production company	Mỹ Vân Films
Distributed by	Mỹ Vân Films Vietnam National Institute of Film
Release date	1963 (1963)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	Republic of Vietnam
Language	Vietnamese

Plot

A love story of Dũng, a playboy from the National Conservatory of Music and Lệ Trinh, a cabaret songstress.

Production

Location is Saigon in 1963 while before the 1 November coup.

Art

• Type: Romance, feature.
• Studio: Mỹ Vân Films
• Print: National Cinema Centre
• Directors: Lê Mộng Hoàng
• Screenplay: Nguyễn Thành Châu
• Composer: Phạm Duy
• Theme songs by Hoàng Thi Thơ (with Tình đêm liên hoan), Nguyễn Hiền (w. Đường tơ thôi lưu luyến), Văn Phụng (w. Tôi đi giữa hoàng hôn), Trúc Phương (w. Tơ vương & Chuyện chúng mình) and Phạm Duy (w. Tơ tình).

Cast

• Thẩm Thúy Hằng as Lệ Trinh
• Mai Ly as Thu Hà
• La Thoại Tân as Trần Anh Dũng
• Tâm Đan as Hồng Liên
• Thanh Thúy as Herself as cabaret singer
• Bảy Nhiêu as Trần Anh Kiệt
• Hữu Phước as Biết
• Lê Thương as Mr. Công
• Hoàng Mai as Lâm
• Năm Châu

with musicians and dancers of the Vietnam Artists Association (Đoàn Văn nghệ Việt Nam).

References

1. Trailer by Lê Quang Thanh Tâm and Thanh Thúy

• Lê Quang Thanh Tâm, Pre-1975 South Vietnamese Cinema, Ho Chi Minh City Culture and Art Publishing House, 2015.
• Sovereignty, Surveillance and Spectacle in The Saigon Fabulous Four