What notable French film set in colonial French Indochina starts a Swiss actor, director, and photographer?
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Vincent Perez Vincent Perez (born 10 June 1964) is a Swiss actor, director and photographer. He is best known internationally for playing the title character, Ashe Corven, in "", and for starring in "Queen of the Damned", playing Marius de Romanus. Some of his notable films in French cinema include "Cyrano de Bergerac", "Le Bossu", "La Reine Margot" and "Indochine".
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Indochine (film) Indochine (] ) is a 1992 French film set in colonial French Indochina during the 1930s to 1950s. It is the story of Éliane Devries, a French plantation owner, and of her adopted Vietnamese daughter, Camille, with the rising Vietnamese nationalist movement set as a backdrop. The screenplay was written by novelist Érik Orsenna, scriptwriters Louis Gardel, Catherine Cohen, and Régis Wargnier, who also directed the film. 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.
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Claude Berri Claude Berri (] ; 1 July 1934 – 12 January 2009) was a French film director, writer, producer, actor and distributor.
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Michel Piccoli Jacques Daniel Michel Piccoli (born 27 December 1925) is a French actor and filmmaker of Ticino descent. He has one of the longest careers in french cinema, and is regarded worldwide as a symbol of France's film history, more specifically of the '60s and the 70's.
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Dien Bien Phu (film) Diên Biên Phu (French for "Điện Biên Phủ") is a 1992 film written and directed by French veteran Pierre Schoendoerffer. With its huge budget, all-star cast, and realistic war scenes produced with the cooperation of the French and Vietnamese armies, "Dîen Bîen Phu" is regarded by many as one of the more important war movies produced in French filmmaking history. It portrays the 55-day siege of Dien Bien Phu (1954), the last battle by the French Union's colonial army in the First Indochina War during the final days of French Indochina, which was soon after divided into North and South Vietnam. This was a prelude to the Second Indochina War, known in the United States as the Vietnam War.
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Jean-Pierre Marielle Jean-Pierre Marielle (born 12 April 1932) is a French actor. He has played in more than a hundred films in which he brought life to a very large diversity of roles, from the banal citizen ("Les Galettes de Pont-Aven"), to the serial killer ("Sans mobile apparent"), to the World War II hero ("Les Milles"), to the compromised spy (""), to the has-been actor ("Les Grands Ducs"), to his portrayal of Jacques Saunière in ("The Da Vinci Code (film) ", acting always with the same excellence whatever the quality of the movie in itself. He is well known for his outspokenness and especially for his warm and cavernous voice which is often imitated by French humorists considering him as the archetype of the French gentleman.
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Christian Lara (film director) Christian Lara (born January 25, 1939, in Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, French West Indies) is a Guadeloupean/French film director, writer, cinematographer and producer. Having shot more than twenty feature films in the Caribbean, France, Canada, Africa, he is regarded by many as ""the Father of French Antilles cinema"".
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Michel Comte Michel Comte (born February 19, 1954 in Zürich, Switzerland) is a filmmaker and a fashion, portrait photographer. He is regarded as one of the most important photographers in the industry, regularly collaborating for Vogue Italia, l'Uomo Vogue, Interview, Vanity Fair etc. He directed and produced "The Girl from Nagasaki", his first feature film in 3D, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2014.
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Nicolas Tikhomiroff Nicolas Tikhomiroff (March 22, 1927 – April 17, 2016) was a Russian photographer, born and raised in France. He started working for Magnum in 1959. Famous for his work on World Cinema, he also had a large portfolio of war photography. Tikohomiroff retired and lived in France.
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Gérard Depardieu Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu (] ; born 27 December 1948) is a French actor, filmmaker, businessman and vineyard owner. He is one of the most prolific character actors in film history, having completed approximately 170 films since 1967.
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Charles Boyer Charles Boyer (] ; 28 August 1899 – 26 August 1978) was a French actor who appeared in more than 80 films between 1920 and 1976. After receiving an education in drama, Boyer started on the stage, but he found his success in American films during the 1930s. His memorable performances were among the era's most highly praised, in romantic dramas such as "The Garden of Allah" (1936), "Algiers" (1938), and "Love Affair" (1939), as well as the mystery-thriller "Gaslight" (1944). He received four Academy Award nominations for Best Actor.
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Christoph Clark Christoph Clark (born 9 February 1958) is a French pornographic actor and director.
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Philippe Nicolet Philippe Nicolet, born January 4, 1953 in Lausanne, is a Swiss film director of both documentaries and fiction. Journalist and scriptwriter, he was the first editor-in-chief of the Lausanne television station before embarking on a project tracing the history of relations between Switzerland and the European Union for the Jean Monnet Foundation, of which Professor Henri Rieben was the president. In addition to documentary footage filmed in some fifty countries, he became known for his hundreds of interviews of political, scientific and artistic personages. In 2006, Nicolet began creating 3D films.
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Cinema of Vietnam The cinema of Vietnam originates in the 1920s, and has largely been shaped by wars that have been fought in the country from the 1940s to the 1970s. Better known Vietnamese language films include "Cyclo", "The Scent of Green Papaya" and "Vertical Ray of the Sun", all by French-trained Việt Kiều director Tran Anh Hung. In recent years, as Vietnam's film industry has modernized and moved beyond government-backed propaganda films, contemporary Vietnamese filmmakers have gained a wider audience with films such as "Buffalo Boy", "Bar Girls", and "The White Silk Dress".
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Pierre Vaneck Pierre Vaneck (15 April 1931 in Lang Son, Vietnam – 31 January 2010 in Paris, France) was a French actor of Belgian origin.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (director) Jean-Jacques Rousseau (16 December 1946 – 5 November 2014) was a Belgian absurdist film director. He defended "popular" cinema, filming with very small budgets (€2000 to 2500 per film), and using unknown or non-professional actors. He called himself "the director of the absurd".
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Jean-Luc Godard Jean-Luc Godard (] ; born 3 December 1930) is a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic. He is often identified with the 1960s French film movement "La Nouvelle Vague", or French New Wave.
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Stéphane Breton (filmmaker) Stéphane Breton (born 1959) is a French filmmaker, photographer and anthropologist.
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Gabriel Veyre Gabriel Veyre was an early film director and photographer born in France, but mainly known for his work in Mexico, Indochina and Morocco.
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François Simon (actor) François Simon (16 August 1917 – 5 October 1982) was a Swiss film actor. He appeared in 35 films between 1936 and 1982. He was the son of actor Michel Simon.
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François Reichenbach François Reichenbach (3 July 1921 – 2 February 1993) was a French film director, cinematographer producer and screenwriter. He directed 40 films between 1954 and 1993.
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Việt Linh Việt Linh (b. Nguyễn Việt Linh in Saigon, French Indochina (now southern Vietnam), 1952) is a prominent Vietnamese film director. She currently lives and works in Paris, France. Her films have been shown in Vietnam, France, the United States, and Australia.