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Certificate 12A

Cast Michelle Yeoh David Thewlis Jonathan Raggett

Directors Luc Besson

Screenwriters Rebecca Frayn

Running Time 132 minutes

The Lady
Besson's Burmese days

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Plot
Rangoon, 1990. Burmese democrat Aung San Suu Kyi (Yeoh) is encouraged to stand in the country's free elections. Despite winning a popular mandate she's place under indefinite house arrest by the repressive regime. Meanwhile, in Oxford, her supportive husband (Thewlis) and two sons wait for word of when they might see her again...

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