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indochine by Christie Dickason ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 30, 1987 A sprawling romantic novel in the epic mode (first published in England last year under the title The Dragon Riders) about a half-caste heroine who finds love and adventure in a deeply atmospheric Vietnam.
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Sep 1, 1987 · Young Nina, a half Vietnamese, half French teenager--takes over her father's opium empire after he escapes to the Asian jungle while the French are forced out of Vietnam, Ho begins his takeover of the south, and America builds up its disastrous defense of the domino theory.
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Oct 1, 2021 · Directed by Régis Wargnier, Indochine is a 1992 movie set in Vietnam during the 1930s to 1950s, when the country was a colony of France and the Nguyễn Dynasty monarchy was still reigning. The trailer of Indochine opens with a very impressive line that summaries the setting of the movie.
Rather than a whitewash of the colonial encounter, Indochine lays bare the decadent excesses of the French colonial lifestyle in Việt Nam and shows how this luxury was predicated upon the brutal and violent exploitation of the non-white population.
Dec 25, 1992 · Regis Wargnier’s lush and poignant “Indochine” (at the Royal and the Colorado) is a sweepingly romantic historical saga, at once intimate and epic, spanning the last quarter-century of French...
Feb 5, 1993 · Indochine. 155 minutes ‧ PG-13 ‧ 1993. Roger Ebert. February 5, 1993. 3 min read. “Indochine” intends to be the French “Gone With The Wind,” a story of romance and separation, told against the backdrop of a ruinous war.
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Sep 1, 1988 · Indochine. Mass Market Paperback – September 1, 1988. Nina, a half-French, half-Vietnamese woman left to fend for herself in the wake of the French withdrawal from Vietnam, rises to a powerful position amidst the chaos of Saigon. Book recommendations, author interviews, editors' picks, and more. Read it now.
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