(VOVWORLD) -People's Artist Bui Dinh Hac, director of the movie "Hanoi 12 days and nights", died at Viet Xo Friendship Hospital in Hanoi on Saturday, at the age of 90.
 People's Artist Bui Dinh Hac. Photo: VTV.VN
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He was born in 1934 in Phu Tho province. In more than 50 years of his career, director-People's Artist Bui Dinh Hac made both documentaries and feature films, including "Nguyen Van Troi lives forever" (1964), "Nguyen Van Troi" (1966), "Road to the motherland" (1971), "Saigon in May 1975" (1975), "Nguyen Ai Quoc came to Lenin" (1979), "Road to the fatherland" (1980), and "Ho Chi Minh - Portrait of a person" (1989).
He directed the famous movie "Hanoi 12 days and nights", which was premiered in 2002 and screened at major international film festivals: Locarno (Switzerland), Fokuoka (Japan), Cairo (Egypt), Vesoul (France), and Fajr (Iran).
In 2007, People's Artist Bui Dinh Hac was awarded the Ho Chi Minh Prize for Literature and Art for his seven outstanding films. He served as Director of the Central Documentary and Film Studio, Director of the Cinema Department, and Deputy Secretary General of the Vietnam Cinema Association.