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    Saigon: Year of the Cat

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    Poster of the movie Saigon: Year of the Cat
    1983     Drama    
    United Kingdom
    1h 45min

    This moving and emotionally complex wartime drama is set in the final days before the fall of Saigon in 1975. Judi Dench portrays Barbara Dean, a loan officer at a British bank in Saigon fending off the romantic advances of a prejudiced co-worker, and an American Embassy employee, she meets and falls in love with a CIA operative trying to convince his disbelieving superiors of the imminent invasion by the Vietcong. As the conflict looms, they fight against overwhelming odds to help their South Vietnamese friends and allies escape the impending crisis.

    Directed byStephen Frears
    Written byDavid Hare

    Starring

    Judi Dench
    Chic Murray
    Roger Rees
    Wallace Shawn
    Frederic Forrest
    E.G. Marshall
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