Published:  00:00 Saturday - February 06, 2010

The made-in-Vietnam film entitled Manh Ghep Cuoc Doi (Porcelain) is being shown at the Netherlands’s Zeeuws Musuem.

The film, that was shot last May, tells the story of a young writer named Khue who becomes romantically involved with a Dutchman of Vietnamese decent.

Porcelain was made by a team of local and international producers, directors and sceenwriters including Do Chi Thien, Tran Thi Bich, Ngoc Tuan, Andrew Nguyen and Rasmus Nielsen.

The film explores the role of the Dutch East India Company (a trading firm that created enormous wealth for the Netherlands in the following centuries) and the public auction in Middleburg of the captured porcelain. The series was shot in Vietnam and starred Kim Tuyen, Hanh Thuy and Nguyen Hau.

While several antiques, including a vase, were brought from the museum to Vietnam for the filming in Ho Chi Minh City, 50 copies of the vase were made by local artisans.

The series was also screened at Filmtheatre Shuttershof in Middleburg, the capital of Zeeland province last October.

The series and an exhibition based on the history of the porcelain have received good reviews in the Netherlands, says executive producer Rasmus Nielsen.

The film is expected to be aired this year on television in the Netherlands and Vietnam.