Indochine [videorecording] / a co-production of Paradis films, la Générale d'images, BAC films, Orly films, Ciné 5 ; directed by Régis Wargnier ; produced by Eric Heumann and Jean Labadie ; original screenplay, adaptation, and dialogue, Erik Orsenna, Louis Gardel, Catherine Cohen, Régis Wargnier.
Catherine Deneuve, Vincent Pérez, Linh Dan Pham, Jean Yanne, Dominique Blanc, Henri Marteau. Originally released as motion picture in 1992. Preceded by previews for other films in the SONY Pictures classics series.
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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