Childhood Days (1979)

Childhood Days (Vietnamese: Những ngày xưa thơ ấu) is a television series based on the memoir "Childhood Days" (Những ngày thơ ấu) by writer Nguyên Hồng. It is produced in 1979.

Plot
The film opens with the image of a fake family. Little Hong's parents got married due to the "calculation" of their two families. Between them, before and after their reluctant marriage, there was no love. Such a family is a grave where two people are buried alive, the most guilty being the woman. The child (Hồng) is just the "result" of a night spent together reluctantly to fulfill the purpose of "continuing the family line" that the family requested. Unhappy and with no way out, the man quickly became an alcoholic, eventually "selling his soul to the brown fairy", life and death. The ultimate suffering falls on the woman who longs for love. Despite such a wish for happiness, the characteristic of the woman (her name is Lộc) is still noble virtue. She doesn't love her husband, but she still sheds tears when she sees him "holding his chest, coughing and spitting profusely". She gritted her teeth and endured all the bitterness, not saying a word of complaint when she had to bury her youth with her addicted husband. But in her heart, there is another person's image. When her husband died, she had to leave her hometown to seek food in Thanh Hóa to earn money to pay off the debt. Then she became pregnant by a man and was accused by relatives of the crime of "pregnancy with someone else before her husband had finished mourning".

Hong is a smart, intelligent child with a pure and sensitive soul, but grew up in an unhappy family and was crushed and humiliated by her whole life. He cried out for her mother and asked for her help: “''If someone would give me a penny? Just a penny! Let me buy sticky rice or bánh khúc. Bite as you go, how delicious it is! Are not! No one will give it to me, because that person is not my mother! To be able to survive, he must train himself to become a "money-making expert''". He was left by his relatives to be miserable, hungry, and beaten, and nothing hurt his soul more than when he was humiliated: "Hong, your father is dead, but your mother is still teaching you. If you take your mother's license and beat you a whore or follow the stage and leave you alone, then we have it!”. This boy also suffered torture at school. The teacher, who had a disdainful attitude towards "street kids", once saw little Hong say "to hell with you" to his friend sitting next to him, but thought he was talking about him. So he beat and scolded him extremely cruelly. Then he forced him to kneel in the corner of the classroom day after day, until the boy's knees hurt so much that he couldn't stand it.

Even so, he still refused to surrender to fate. He still tries to study hard. And his learning results surprised his teachers and classmates because of his best efforts.

Casts
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Episodes
This film has 36 episodes.

International versions

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