Saigon: Year of the Cat

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Saigon: Year of the Cat
Story byDavid Hare
Directed byStephen Frears
StarringJudi Dench
Frederic Forrest
Chic Murray
Wallace Shawn
Theme music composerGeorge Fenton
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
Production
ProducersMichael Dunlop
David Hare
Verity Lambert
CinematographyJim Howlett
EditorOscar Webb
Production companyThames Television
Original release
Release
  • 29 November 1983 (1983-11-29)

Saigon: Year of the Cat is a television drama first broadcast in 1983 by Thames Television. It was directed by Stephen Frears; the screenplay was by David Hare.

It stars Judi Dench, Frederic Forrest, E. G. Marshall, Wallace Shawn and Chic Murray.

Synopsis

Barbara Dean (Judi Dench), an assistant manager in a foreign bank in Saigon in 1974, begins a relationship with American Bob Chesneau (Frederic Forrest), and quickly senses that he works for the CIA. Chesneau realises that the fall of Vietnam to the North Vietnamese is for the very near future.

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