The General Retires

The General Retires

1988 · 90 min · ★ 7.5 · Drama

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.

Directed by Nguyễn Khắc Lợi · Written by Dương Đăng Hinh

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