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HANOI, Vietnam, March 25

A film starring Trinh Cong Son rarely seen in Vietnam reportedly will be
screened at a Hanoi festival marking the anniversary of the famous
singer's death.

Known as the Bob Dylan of Vietnam, Son was an anti-war composer and
singer who died in 2001 at the age of 62.

A music festival has been held each year to commemorate the anniversary
of his death.

This year's celebration, to be held next week, will also offer a rarely
seen glimpse of Son as an actor, the Vietnam News reported Tuesday.

"One of my contacts in the United States sent me a CD with a recording
of a film called 'Dat Kho (Poor Land.') It was made in 1973 and was
about artists and singers during the American War," Son's friend, poet
Do Trung Quan, told the News.

The film, which co-starred Trinh Quan, Kim Cuong, Bach Ly and Son Nam,
was banned by the U.S.-backed Saigon administration at the time, Quan
said.

"It was such a huge surprise for me, in all the decades we'd been
friends, I never knew he'd been an actor. He never told me."