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The Sympathizer (Vietnamese: Cảm tình viên) is a historical black comedy drama miniseries based on the 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by American writer Viet Thanh Nguyen. The series was created by co- showrunners Park Chan-wook and Don McKellar , with Park directing the first three episodes.
Much of The Sympathizer takes place after the Fall of Saigon in 1975, which marked the end of the Vietnam War in the American consciousness. For Vietnam, the conflict carried on.
Based on Viet Thanh Nguyen's Pulitzer-winning novel of the same name, The Sympathizer tells the story of a character known only as The Captain (Hoa Xuande), who was a double agent during the ...
Starring Hoa Xuande, Fred Nguyen Khan and Duy Nguyen, with Robert Downey Jr. and Sandra Oh in supporting roles, the show, which premieres on Apr. 14, marks the culmination of almost a decade of ...
The Sympathizer is the 2015 debut novel by Vietnamese-American professor and writer Viet Thanh Nguyen. It is a best-selling novel, [ 6 ] and recipient of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction . The novel received generally positive reviews from critics. [ 7 ]
At a North Vietnam re-education camp, a man known as the Captain is pressured by soldiers to "confess" his story.. In 1975, four months before the Fall of Saigon, the Captain meets with a CIA agent named Claude (Robert Downey Jr.), joining him for a "screening" of Death Wish, which is actually an interrogation of a woman being tortured due to possessing a vital list.
The Sympathizer, which debuted on HBO this Sunday night, introduces us to the Captain (Hoa Xuande), a member of the South Vietnamese Army in 1975. The Captain is secretly a spy for the North. The ...
Episode 2 saw the General (Toan Le) begin to suspect the presence of a North Vietnamese spy among the South Vietnamese community he began building in Los Angeles after the war, but he’s still ...