Summary
Kim is 15; his father and step-mother have two buffalo, their lifeline as subsistence rice farmers. During the rainy season, there's no grass and the buffalo are starving. Kim volunteers to take the beasts inland to find food.
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Critics vs audiences
Critics like it more than audiences (+26)
Critics 86Audiences 60GoodWatch 66
Tomatometer100%
Metascore72
IMDb7.0
Audience score50%
Running time
1 h 42 min
A typical length for dramas, −7 min on the typical 109
typical 109102Half of all dramas run 98–125 min.
Reach
Streams in 1 country, rent or buy in 1 more
Released
2004
August 14, 2004
22 years ago
Genre
DramaLanguage
Vietnamese
Original language
Made in
Vietnam
Germany
France
Belgium
and 5 more16 people
- Lê Thế LữKim
- Kiều TrinhBan
- Nguyễn Hữu ThànhDinh, Kim's Father
- ZSZan Sram KraDet
- VBVan Be TruongHai Tich
- Ánh HoaBà Hai
- Nguyễn Thị ThắmBa Tu
- HNHoang Nhan VoLap
- Trương Quang ThịnhQuang
- NVNguyễn Văn ĐâyXuyen
- Thạch Kim LongThanh
- TTThi Thu Tam CaoLam
- HPHuu Phuoc NguyenThieu
- CNChau NguyenCha Ban
- TTTrung Truc ThachKim, Age 5
- Thành LũyTax agent
Directing · 1
- Minh Nguyen-Vo Director, Writer, Associate Producer
Writing · 1
- Nam Son Writer
Production · 5
- Vincent Canart Producer
- Muriel Merlin Producer
- Duc Tien Le Producer
- Olivier Dubois Producer
- Phạm Hồng Phong Production Designer
Sound · 1
- Tôn-Thât Tiêt Original Music Composer
Other crew · 1
- Yves Cape Cinematography
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