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