The Return

The Return

1994 · 110 min · ★ 8.0 · Drama

In the years following the American war a young woman from Hanoi teaches in a rural school in the south. There she meets a troubled young man, and they have a brief romance that she recalls wistfully years later in her unhappy marriage.

Directed by Dang Nhat Minh · Written by Dang Nhat Minh

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