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Don't Burn

Don't Burn

DON'T BURN! IN THERE IS FIRE ALREADY.

2009 · 100 min · ★ 6.2 · History, Drama, War

In the spring of 2005, a mother living in Hanoi receives a diary of her late daughter, a young doctor working at a field hospital during the war. Kept for over thirty years by an American veteran, the diary is an account of her life spanning two years, from April 1968 until her death in June 1970.

Directed by Dang Nhat Minh · Written by Dang Nhat Minh

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