Indochine
Indochine is a 1992 French period drama film set in colonial French Indochina from the 1930s to the 1950s. It 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. The screenplay was written by novelist Érik Orsenna, screenwriters Louis Gardel and Catherine Cohen, and director Régis Wargnier. 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, and Deneuve was nominated for Best Actress.
Plot
In 1930, Éliane Devries, a woman born to French parents in colonial Indochina, runs her and her widowed father's rubber plantation with indentured laborers. She is the adoptive mother of Camille, a teenaged girl whose birth parents were friends of Éliane's and members of the Nguyễn dynasty.