Within two years before the opening of the Congress, the propaganda agencies of the Communist Party and the Government of Vietnam have received the instruction of operating at full capacity to revive the spirit of the public.
Telefilm Cards on the Table was originally one of the film projects submitted by the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee to the supreme agency for approval.
It was a literary script of author Nguyễn Trương Thiên Lý, whose real name was Trần Bạch Đằng and a reputable historical researcher.
Trần Bạch Đằng's intention was to make only a simple movie about the fate of intelligence Phạm Ngọc Thảo, whom was only called as "Mr. Chín T." for contemporary safety reasons.
Therefore, when the scenario was published in the form of a novel, writer Trần Bạch Đằng decided to use title Cards on the Table (Ván bài lật ngửa, Lê Hoàng Hoa's creation) instead of Between the Spear Sea and the Sword Forest (Giữa biển giáo rừng gươm), while retaining some details and characters from Lê Hoàng Hoa's development.
Nguyễn Thành Luân in the cover of an electric engineer who was bored of life in the forest with Vietcong, so he asked to return to the national justice.
However, it was not until the 1990s that the truth was revealed : Party Secretary of Ho Chi Minh City, Võ Văn Kiệt, took advantage of all his influence to save Lê Hoàng Hoa and many other artists, whom were included in the list of the crew of Cards on the Table.
Therefore, this film opened up a period of strong development of Vietnamese cinema, and made many actors becoming stars in the admiration of many generations of public.
Also from the original intention, writer Trần Bạch Đằng just wanted to comply with the principles of socialist realism, in which, the image of the main character must contain the good qualities of the revolutionary ideal, thereby propagating the position of the Communist Party.
He decided to exploit the factors that made the success of James Bond and Stierlitz to recreate Nguyễn Thành Luân in a completely different form, which was more vivid and ordinary.
voice and the gun barrel pointed at them, end of film ; the first scene of the next episode, Luân and Dung still remained calm, because the one who threatened them turned out to be Quyến, he was also a spy.
Over the decades since Cards on the Table was released, the propaganda articles of the Government of Vietnam usually repeated that, it was almost like a victory because has contributed to strengthening the people's beliefs in the leadership of the communists.
However, for the public, especially the young people, the two things that make the telefilm's appeal are explained as follows : The presence of all historical celebrities in the First Republic of Vietnam (1960 - 1963), the danger and unpredictability from the affairs of Engineer Nguyễn Thành Luân.