Indochine
(1999, original release: 1992)

Fiction

DVD

Call Numbers:
DVD/FOREIGN/FRENCH/INDOCHINE

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Movies DVD/FOREIGN/FRENCH/INDOCHINE Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Video ; [Place of publication not identified] : Sony Pictures Classics, [1999]
EDITION
Extended international version
DESCRIPTION

1 videodisc (approximately 156 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (19 cm)

ISBN/ISSN
0767828097 27239
LANGUAGE
French
NOTES

Originally produced as motion picture in 1992

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

Special features: theatrical trailers for Orlando and Farinelli, talent files on the director (Wargnier) and two cast members (Deneuve and Pérez), production notes

Photography, François Catonné; sets, Jacques Bufnoir; editors, Genevieve Winding, Agnes Schwab; music, Patrick Doyle

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

MPAA rating: Not rated

DVD, widescreen presentation (1.85:1); 2-channel Dolby digital surround

In French with optional subtitles in English, French or Spanish; closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired

Academy Award: Best foreign language film, 1992

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