The Scent of Green Papaya
Jun 08 1993
•2h 44m
•Drama, Romance
A young Vietnamese peasant girl named Mùi becomes the servant of a house in pre-unification Saigon.
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Trần Nữ Yên Khê
Mui
Man San Lu
Young Mui
Thi Loc Truong
Mother
Nguyen Anh Hoa
Old Woman
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