Indochine [videorecording] / BAC Films ; Paradis Films et la Generale d'Images présentent une coproduction Paradis Films ... [et al.] ; scénario original, adaptation, dialogue, Erik Orsenna ... [et al.] ; produit par Eric Heumann et Jean Labadie ; un film de Regis Wargnier.
Catherine Deneuve, Vincent Pérez, Linh Dan Pham, Jean Yanne, Dominique Blanc, Henri Marteau. Originally produced as motion picture in 1992. Special features: theatrical trailers for Orlando and Farinelli, talent files on the director (Wargnier) and two cast members (Deneuve and Pérez), production notes.
Summary:
Set in French Indochina in the 1930s as the Vietnamese begin to rebel against French colonialism. Dramatizes the last years of French rule through the relationship between plantation owner Éliane, French by birth but born and raised in Indochina, and her adopted daughter Camille, an orphaned Annamese princess who becomes a Vietnamese revolutionary and representative at the Geneva Conference after having a child by French officer Jean-Baptiste, Éliane's past lover.
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