Red Rain - a film about the legend of Quang Tri Citadel: Everyone regrets being 20, so what's left of the Fatherland?

Images of young soldiers at Quang Tri Citadel in the film Red Rain. In the photo: Lam Thanh Nha as Binh (second from right), Dinh Khang as Tu (third from right) - Photo: DPCC

Red Rain is a feature film about the revolutionary war. The script is by writer Chu Lai, inspired and fictionalized from the event of 81 days and nights of heroic and resilient fighting by the people and cadres and soldiers to protect Quang Tri Citadel in 1972.

Those 81 days and nights became legendary, contributing to the victory at the Paris Conference negotiating table, paving the way for the great victory in the spring of 1975, liberating the South and unifying the country.

Twenty years old become waves

Movie Red Rain of People's Army Cinema tells that heroic story. The teaser trailer released on the morning of April 22 recounts the suffocating atmosphere that caused many casualties among soldiers, losing hundreds of people every day.

Actor Do Nhat Hoang as Cuong - Photo: DPCC

The intense and emotional summer of 1972 is told through the young, brave faces of Squad 1 - young men carrying the enthusiasm of their twenties into the battlefield, with all their faith and passionate patriotism.

After the sound of bombs and bullets, the teaser trailer still shows the soldiers' bright, optimistic smiles. In their rare moments of rest, they still write poetry and music like when they were still in the classroom.

They consider Quang Tri as their homeland. Quang Tri Citadel is home, comrades become relatives. They were just students or farmers, but when the Fatherland needed them, they still did not spare their blood and youth, protecting every inch of the Citadel.

Red Rain Movie Trailer

They were all ready to "Be twenty years old and become waves, lapping the shore forever" (from the poem) Words by the river by veteran Le Ba Duong). However, "How can one not regret one's twenties/ But if everyone regrets their twenties, what is left of the Fatherland?" (from the poem Song Seven by Thanh Thao).

As one by one they fell, the military doctor (played by Hua Vi Van) had to choke out: "Every day we lose hundreds of people."

Hua Vi Van plays a military doctor, heartbroken when the casualties are too great - Photo: Cut from trailer

Red Rain restores the ancient citadel elaborately

Most of the teaser trailer's images are filled with smoke, bombs, painful eyes and fallen bodies, but in the end, the courage behind the saying: "Just let us go to battle, there will be an answer!".

The answer is clear to today's generation - the answer is independence day.

To authentically recreate the historical context of the war at Quang Tri Citadel, the film crew Red Rain built a large-scale studio in Quang Tri town, Quang Tri province, next to the river. Thach Han River

Red Rain Film Studio reconstructs Quang Tri Citadel - Photo: DPCC

Amidst the bombs and bullets of war, soldiers still romantically write poetry and music - Photo: DPCC

A version of the Citadel that is most authentically recreated in terms of geography and morphology with a system of trenches, tunnels, field meeting rooms, surgical stations, defensive fortifications, field airport... All are carefully restored under the advice of veterans and witnesses.

According to the manufacturer, Red Rain is a stick of incense that soldiers today dedicate to show gratitude, remember and be grateful to those who sacrificed their youth on the battlefield, their blood and bones for the country. Fatherland.

Movie Red Rain expected to be released in theaters on September 2nd this year.

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