Movie
![Poster of the movie Saigon: Year of the Cat [1983]](/images/posters/1000x1500/7/saigon-year-of-the-cat-1983-i-movie-poster.jpg)
1983 Drama
1h 45min
Country | United Kingdom |
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 by | Stephen Frears |
Written by | David Hare |
Starring
Judi Dench
Roger Rees
Wallace Shawn
Frederic Forrest
E.G. Marshall
Chic Murray
Yim Hoontrakul
Pichit Bulkul
Rong Wongsawan
Manning Redwood
Somsak Seangwilai
Vitoon Winwitoon
Josef Sommer
Thomasine Heiner
Gerry Bammem
Deborah Eisenberg
Clarke Peters
Malinee
Po Pao Pee
Tawee Sub
Bob Sherman
Andrew Winner
Bach Ngoc Tran
Thavisakdi Srimuang
Emily Mann
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