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Dumb Luck

Dumb Luck

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 1990

Runtime

4h 14m

Genres

Comedy

Original Title

Số Đỏ

Production Companies

Hãng Phim Truyện Việt Nam

Director

Hà Văn Trọng

Description

The sexually repressed widow Doan comes to play tennis in the court where sly, lewd orphan Xuan (nicknamed Red-haired Xuan for his sunburnt hair) is working as a ball boy. Their encounter that day would change Xuan's life forever, as the widow introduced him to an entirely different world of the hypocritical and decadent petite bourgeoisie class, a condition of "Westernized" middle-class Hanoians under French colonial rule in the 1920s. An 8-part series adapted from Vu Trong Phung's classic satire.