Year: 1981
Runtime: 80 mins
Language: Vietnamese
Director: Phạm Văn Khoa
Based on Ngô Tất Tố’s novel “When the Light Is Out,” the story unfolds under French Indochina’s harsh rule. To prevent her husband’s torture for unpaid taxes, a desperate mother sells her daughter and four dogs to a wealthy village family, exposing the brutal sacrifices forced by colonial oppression.
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