have killed Jean-Baptiste to silence him. With no evidence sought for either suspicion, Jean-Baptiste's death is ruled a suicide. Camille is captured and sent to Poulo-Condor – a high security prison where visitors are not permitted and not even Éliane or Guy can help free her. After five years, the Popular Front comes to power and releases all political prisoners including Camille. Éliane reunites with Camille, but she declines to return to her mother and son, choosing instead to join the Communists and fight for Vietnam's independence. Camille reasons she does not wish for her son to know the horrors she has witnessed, and tells her mother that French colonialism is drawing to an end. Taking Étienne with her, Éliane sells her plantation and leaves Indochina. In 1954, Éliane finishes telling her story to a grown Étienne. They have both come to Switzerland, where Camille is a Vietnamese Communist Party delegate to the Geneva Conference. Étienne goes to the negotiators' hotel intending to find his birth mother, but it is so crowded with people that he is not sure how Camille can find or recognize him. He tells Éliane he sees her as his mother. As the film concludes, an epilogue notes the next day, French Indochina becomes independent from France and Vietnam is partitioned into North and South Vietnam. Cast Catherine Deneuve as Éliane Devries Vincent Pérez as Jean-Baptiste Linh Dan Pham as Camille Jean Yanne as Guy Dominique Blanc as Yvette Henri Marteau as Émile Thi Hoe Tranh Huu Trieu as Mme. Minh Tam Eric Nguyen as Thanh Jean-Baptiste Huynh as Étienne Carlo Brandt as Castellani Hubert Saint-Macary as Raymond Andrzej Seweryn as Hébrard Thibault de Montalembert as Charles-Henri Như Quỳnh as Sao Production The film was shot mainly in Imperial City, Hue, Ha Long (Ha Long Bay) and Ninh Binh (Phát Diệm Cathedral) in Vietnam. Butterworth in Malaysia was used as a substitute for Saigon and Éliane Devries' "Lang-Sai" plantation house was actually Crag Hotel in Penang, Malaysia. Some parts were filmed in Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion, in George Town, Penang, Malaysia. Principal photography began on April 8, 1991, and concluded on August 22, 1991. Release Box office The film received a total of 3,198,663 cinema-goers in France, making it the 6th most attended film of the year. The film also grossed $5,603,158 in North America. Critical reception On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, Indochine holds an