Overview:
A poor French teenage girl engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir in 1920s Saigon. For the first time in her young life she has control, and she wields it deftly over her besotted lover throughout a series of clandestine meetings and torrid encounters.| Original Title: | L'Amant |
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| Status: | Released (1992-01-22) |
| Awards: | Nominated for 1 Oscar. 3 wins & 7 nominations total |
| BoxOffice: | $4,899,194 |
| Screen: | Marguerite Duras, Gérard Brach, Jean-Jacques Annaud |
| Productions: | Timothy Burrill Productions, Renn Productions, Grai Phang Film Studio, Films A2 |
| Production Countries: | France, United Kingdom, Vietnam |
| Spoken Languages: | 普通话, English |
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- 21817: Jane March - The Young Girl
- 56861: Tony Leung Ka-Fai - The Chinaman
- 40582: Frédérique Meininger - The Mother
- 67780: Arnaud Giovaninetti - The Elder Brother
- 26100: Melvil Poupaud - The Younger Brother
- 182054: Lisa Faulkner - Helene Lagonelle
- 14812: Jeanne Moreau - Narrator
Crews
- 2356: Gérard Brach - Screenplay - Writing
- 2352: Jean-Jacques Annaud - Director - Directing
- 2352: Jean-Jacques Annaud - Screenplay - Writing
- 20718: Claude Berri - Producer - Production
- 29905: Marguerite Duras - Novel - Writing
- 5488: Gabriel Yared - Original Music Composer - Sound
- 2596: Robert Fraisse - Director of Photography - Camera
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A wealthy man (Tony Leung) is travelling on a ferry when he encounters a pretty young woman (Jane March). It doesn't take long before they are having a fairly torrid affair, but things are difficult. He is older and a Chinese citizen, she a French girl in what was then French Indo-Ch ....
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