Saigon: Year of the Cat

Saigon: Year of the Cat

5.3IMDb Score
Released:1983-11-29
Duration:105 min
Director:Stephen Frears
Actors:Judi Dench, Frederic Forrest, Chic Murray, E.G. Marshall, Josef Sommer
Production:Thames Television

Overview:

The year is 1974, and Barbara Dean (Judi Dench), a British assistant manager in a foreign bank in Saigon, begins a relationship with American Bob Chesneau (Frederic Forrest). She quickly realises that he works for the CIA and he knows that the fall of South Vietnam is very near.

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