The General Retires
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Film of Nguyen Huy Thiep's controversial story about a general who, after devoting his life to the communist cause, retires, only to find that his household is in disarray, his grown children money-grubbing, and Vietnamese society far from the rosy picture of equality he'd imagined he'd helped make it.
Release Date
1988-04-01
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6
Rating:
3.0 startsTagline
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Tiếng Việt
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