A scene in the music video Cuc Oi. (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - A music video dedicated to 10 young femalevolunteers who sacrificed their lives for the Dong Loc Victory touched theaudience’s hearts during its debut on July 25 in Hanoi.
The video, entitled Cuc Oi, is based on a song of the samename composed by Hang Ry, adopted from the poem written by Yen Thanh.
Excellent Artist To Nga has had the idea to make the videofor 12 years, but for a number of reasons was unable to release it until now.
Nga said it’s the biggest project in her 25-year-long career.
She invested a lot of time and effort to make the music videolike a short movie, with professional audio, beautiful scenes and impressivespecial effects. Two hundred actors and actresses were involved in filming.
In the video, Nga performs the song Cuc Oi and narrates thestory of Ho Thi Cuc, one of ten female volunteers at the Dong Loc T-junction.
Located in Dong Loc commune, Can Loc district in the centralprovince of Ha Tinh, Dong Loc T-junction is a part of the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
From 1965 to 1968, the US army dropped nearly 50,000 bombsand fired tens of thousands of missiles on the Dong Loc T-junction to cut offthe transport route to the southern front.
At that time, in order to keep traffic flowing, all humanresources were mobilised to clear the road.
Ten girls volunteered to work at the Dong Loc T-junction toensure the safe operation of the transport route sending supplies to thesouthern front.
At noon on the 15th day of bombing, a bomb fell very close tothe mouth of the cave where the 10 volunteers, aged from 17 to 24, weresheltering while they worked to fill in bomb craters to reopen theintersection. The bomb killed them all on July 24, 1968.
The bodies of most of the young girls were soon found.However, Cuc was found many days later. It was said that Cuc was an innocent,kind-hearted and energetic girl. She and other girls at the Dong Loc T-junctionbecome an inspiration for many works of art.
There are many songs and poems about them but Nga chose theone composed by poet Yen Thanh and musician Hang Ry because she felt aconnection with it. Thanh was also a comrade of her father during the war.
“My team felt emotional during their time making the musicvideo in Ha Tinh province,” said Nga.
“We want to dedicate this work to the brave girls at Dong LocT-junction.”
For director Lam Ha, making this video was a big challengebecause war is a difficult subject for any director.
“I tried to make something different from other films of thisgenre. The fierce scenes of the war just highlight the beauty of the people’ssouls.”
“Though the story is about war, it’s a music video, not ahistorical film, so it’s still made in a very artistic way.”
The debut is one among many activities to commemorate the50th anniversary of the death of 10 girls at Dong Loc T-junction.-VNS/VNA
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