Indochine
By: a co-production of Paradis films, la Generale d'images, BAC films, Orly films, Cine? 5 ; directed by Regis Wargnier ; produced by Eric Heumann and Jean Labadie ; original screenplay, adaptation, and dialogue, Erik Orsenna, Louis Gardel, Catherine Cohen, Regis Wargnier
Contributors: Deneuve, Catherine, 1943-; Perez, Vincent; Pham, Dan Linh; Yanne, Jean; Paradis Films; Generale d'Images; Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm)
Series: SONY Pictures classics
Publisher: Columbia TriStar Home Video
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Burbank, Calif
Language: fre
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 156
Subjects: Drama; Feature films; Imperialism; Mothers and daughters; Communists; Indochinese War, 1946-1954; Foreign films; French Motion pictures; History; Politics and government; Colonies; Geneva Conference (1954)
Description: 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 Eliane, 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, Eliane's past lover.
Notes: Originally released as motion picture in 1992.

Digitally mastered.

Preceded by previews for other films in the SONY Pictures classics series.

Photography, Francois Catonne; music, Patrick Doyle.

Catherine Deneuve, Vincent Perez, Linh Dan Pham, Jean Yanne, Dominique Blanc, Henri Marteau.

Rated PG-13.

VHS; hi-fi stereo, Dolby surround;  NTSC.

In French with yellow English subtitles.

Academy Award: Best foreign language film.