Buffalo Boy = Mua len Trau
Barcode: 58948554
Call Number: V-VIE 001
Material Type: Video -DVD
Time: 98 min.
Date: c2004
System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1
DVD Region: Region 1
Language: Vietnamese
Creator: Directed by Minh Nguyen-Vo
Description: Set along the southern coast of Vietnam during the French occupation in the 1940s, water is everywhere, giving life and bringing decay and rot. 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. On this coming-of-age journey, Kim sees men mistreat women, men fight with men, and French taxes rob the poor. He works for Lap, a buffalo herder whose past is entangled with Kim's parents, and he makes friends who will lead him to his place in the world.
Collection: Language Resource Center