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film by Régis Wargnier

Indochine (French pronunciation:[ɛ̃dɔʃin]) is a French period drama film set in colonial French Indochina during the s to s. 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.^[2]

Plot

In , Éliane Devries, someone born to French parents in colonial Indochina, runs her and her widowed father's rubberplantation with indentured laborers and divides her days between her homes there and outside Saigon. She is also the adoptive mother of