Overview
Set in colonial French Indochina during the 1930s to 1950s, this is the story of Éliane Devries, a French plantation owner, and of her adopted Vietnamese daughter, Camille, set against the backdrop of the rising Vietnamese nationalist movement.
Details
- Director
- Régis Wargnier
- Writer
- Louis Gardel
- Original Language
- French
- Budget
- N/A
Cast
Alain Fromager
Carlo Brandt
Catherine Deneuve
Dominique Blanc
Eric Nguyen
Henri Marteau
Jean Yanne
Jean-Baptiste Huynh
Linh-Dan Pham
Vincent Perez
Keywords
1930s
1940s
1950s
adopted daughter
adoption
arranged marriage
civil war
exotic locale
extramarital affair
french colonialism
french indochina war
french naval officer
french navy
fugitive lovers
harvest workers
indochina
indochine
longing
love of one's life
mother and daughter love same man
nationalism
nationalist separatism
naval officer
parent child relationship
plantation
plantation owner
powerful woman
revolutionaries
rubber plantation
saigon
theater troupe
tragic heroine
vietnam
vietnamese
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