The General Retires
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A general who devoted 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.
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Mạnh Linh
General Thuấn
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Nguyễn Khắc Lợi Director · Dương Đăng Hinh Writer Nguyễn Huy Thiệp Story
First release April 1, 1988 · Produced in Vietnam · Original title Tướng Về Hưu
Production
Vietnam Feature Film Studio
Production
Vietnam
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Languages
Original title
Tướng Về Hưu
Original language
Vietnamese
Spoken on screen
Vietnamese
Release dates
Vietnam · April 1, 1988
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Canada
September 7, 1996 · Toronto International Film Festival
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