Indochine (film)
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| Directed by | Régis Wargnier |
| Produced by | Eric Heumann Jean Labadie |
| Written by |
Érik Orsenna Louis Gardel Catherine Cohen Régis Wargnier |
| Starring |
Catherine Deneuve Vincent Pérez Linh Dan Pham Jean Yanne Dominique Blanc |
| Music by | Patrick Doyle |
| Cinematography | François Catonné |
| Edited by | Agnès Schwab Geneviève Winding |
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Paradis Films
Bac Films Orly Films Ciné Cinq |
| Distributed by | Bac Films |
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Running time
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159 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French Vietnamese |
| Box office | $29.6 million |
Indochine (French pronunciation: [ɛ̃dɔʃin]) is a 1992 French film set in colonial French Indochina during the 1930s to 1950s. It is the story of Éliane Devries, a French plantation owner, and of her adopted Vietnamese daughter, Camille, with the rising Vietnamese nationalist movement set as a backdrop. The screenplay was written by novelist Érik Orsenna, scriptwriters Louis Gardel, Catherine Cohen, and Régis Wargnier, who also directed the film. The film stars Catherine Deneuve, Vincent Pérez, Linh Dan Pham, Jean Yanne and Dominique Blanc. The film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 65th Academy Awards.
In 1930 marked by growing anticolonial unrest, Éliane Devries (Catherine Deneuve), a single woman born to French parents in colonial Indochina, runs her and her widowed father's (Henri Marteau) large rubber plantation with many indentured laborers, whom she casually refers to as her coolies, and divides her days between her homes at the plantation and outside Saigon. After her best friends from the Nguyễn Dynasty die in a plane crash, she adopts their five-year-old daughter Camille (Ba Hoang, as child). Guy Asselin (Jean Yanne), the head of the French security services in Indochina, courts Éliane, but she rejects him and raises Camille alone giving her the education of a privileged European through her teens.
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