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.

The Young Girl

The Chinaman

The Mother

The Elder Brother

The Younger Brother

Helene Lagonelle

Narrator (voice)
The Chinaman's Father

The French Teacher
Anne-Marie Stretter

Status
Released
Type
Movie
Director
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Genres