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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, ... In the North, the communist revolutionary Ho Chi Minh led the People's Army of Vietnam. Unlike Thieu in the South, "Uncle ...
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.
Time to Party. The Longevity Party is very nice. It’s like a bat mitzvah for an 80-year-old woman. The General’s daughter, Lana (Vy Le), sings a song on stage as the General mutters to himself.
So begins Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Sympathizer,” which, when released in 2015, was hailed for its humorous, biting interrogation of American perspectives on the ...
To convey these ideas, Xuande said, it was necessary to involve a mostly Vietnamese cast. “Having a Vietnamese cast at the forefront of this, through their perspectives, it shows how we’re ...
In a Zoom interview, the co-stars dish about crafting their complex roles, how The Sympathizer speaks to Asian-American identity, and Oh’s on-set speech to the predominantly Asian cast and crew ...
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 ...