| The Eleventh Child | |
|---|---|
| French | Tang le onzième |
| Vietnamese | Nguol thùa |
| Directed by | Dai Sijie |
| Written by | Dai Sijie Nadine Perront |
| Produced by | Claude Kunetz Marc Piton Roger Frappier |
| Starring | Akihiro Nishida |
| Cinematography | Guy Dufaux |
| Edited by | Marie Castro-Vasquez |
| Music by | Jean-Marie Sénia |
Production companies | Paris New York Productions Max Films La Sept Cinéma |
| Distributed by | Rézo Films France Film |
Release date |
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Running time | 91 minutes |
| Countries | Canada France Vietnam |
| Language | Vietnamese |
The Eleventh Child (Vietnamese: Nguol thùa) is a drama film, directed by Dai Sijie and released in 1998.[1] A coproduction of companies from Vietnam, France and Canada, the film stars Akihiro Nishida as Tang, a Vietnamese man who returns to his hometown upon learning that his brother is ill with leprosy. Community folklore holds when a family from the area gives birth to five sons and five daughters, they will gain the power to kill a large fish in the nearby lake whose flesh can cure the disease; Tang already has five sons and four daughters and his wife is pregnant once more, meaning that he may become the one who can fulfill the community's dreams.[1]