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The story of a communist spy called the Captain (Hoa Xuande)—and his time spent embedded in the South Vietnamese secret police—is adapted from Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize–winning ...
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.
Something incredibly strange took hold of The Sympathizer last week. For reasons I can’t explain, when critically acclaimed South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook departed the limited series, the ...
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.
HBO released a new trailer for the espionage thriller on Thursday showcasing executive producer Downey Jr. playing multiple characters. The upcoming limited series adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen ...
Hoa Xuande: It was basically a guy who was having a massive identity crisis: being a double-agent, having conflicting sides to play, and tests of loyalties to his friends and to people he’s ...
“The Sympathizer,” which premieres on HBO and Max on April 14, is based on Viet Thanh Nguyen’s 2015 novel of the same name, which won a Pulitzer Prize and is widely lauded for inverting the ...
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 ...