In the last years of the French occupation of Vietnam, the French lady Ariana (played by Catherine Deneuve) ran a rubber plantation in southern Vietnam. She adopted the Vietnamese princess Camille (played by Linh Dan Pham) whose parents had died. ), the two live on each other. Ariana falls in love with the young Vietnamese colonial naval officer Jan Baptis (Vincent Perez), but then Jan and Camille fall in love. Camille vowed to marry to Zhan, and ran away from home to follow Zhan to Long Island in northern Vietnam. On the way, Camille was hunted down for the manslaughter of a French officer, and the two began to flee. On the way, they gave birth to their son Etienne. In the end, the two were arrested and the son was brought up by his grandmother Etienne. Zhan refused to return to the country for trial and committed suicide in indignation. Camille was released from prison due to an amnesty. When Ariana went to take her home, Camille left the home without hesitation and became a staunch Vietnamese national independent communist. A few years later, when Etienne saw her mother who was a member of the Vietnamese delegation participating in the Geneva negotiations again, the two were already indifferent.
This film won the best foreign language film at the 65th Academy Awards.
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