Indochine (1992)
Set in colonial French Indochina during the 1930s to 1950s, this 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. vietnam, civil war, love of one's life, parent child relationship, communist, nationalism, adoption, arranged marriage, plantation, longing, saigon, naval officer, indochina, extramarital affair, vietnamese, theater troupe, french colonialism, exotic locale, 1930s, adopted daughter, french navy, revolutionaries, nationalist separatism, powerful woman, harvest workers, tragic heroine, plantation owner, french indochina war, indochine, rubber plantation, fugitive lovers, mother and daughter love same man, french naval officer