American born Vietnamese film makerVictor Vu heads back to his cultural homeland Vietnam to create the slick thriller INFERNO.
Vu made a name for himself with Spirits which like many of his other fellow vietnamese compadres pushed his countrys film industry into the world stage.
Inferno will be out in Vietnam on September 17th, trailer after the break...
SAIGON, DISTRICT 7. Heavy rain falls from the dark sky. A car speeds across an intersection and loses control, smashing into a delivery truck. The car flips through the air and explodes in flames. The man in the car is severely burned - his face completely disfigured. To make matters worse, he suffers from amnesia and cannot remember anything before the accident.
The man wakes up several weeks later in the hospital and learns that he is MANH, a wealthy real estate tycoon with connections with politicians as well as the underground world. Later, he knows he has a beautiful wife named Trang and a man who is assumed to be his best friend named Bao. He also knows that he has business relationship with a son of a powerful mafia family named Hung. And .... there is a mysterious young girl who always follow him with strange messages.
Manh finds that he is in a mysterious journey through the connections with various characters. As the stories told by them, the secrets of his life are gradually revealed. PAST & PRESENT connects...
In the effort to get his memories and piercing his broken life back together, the ugly truths behind his true face and the secrets from the accident come to light....
