If I Were for Real

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If I Were for Real

1981

1h 39m

6.2(14 votes)

Drama

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Taiwanese film about the dark days of the Cultural Revolution and the young people who were destroyed by it, centered on a group of students who perform Nikolai Gogol’s play The Inspector General.

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譚詠麟

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Nancy Hu Guan-Chen

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