The Quiet American (2002)

Directors

Phillip Noyce

Cast

Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Do Thi Hai Yen, Tzi Ma, Robert Stanton, Rade Šerbedžija, Holmes Osborne

The story

The story is set in 1952 in Saigon, Vietnam (French Indochina at that time), toward the end of the First Indochina War (1946–1954) in which French forces fought the Communist-led Viet Minh rebels. On one level, The Quiet American is a love story about the triangle that develops between Thomas Fowler, a British journalist in his fifties; Alden Pyle, a young American idealist; and Phuong, a young Vietnamese woman. On another level, it is also about the growing American involvement that led to the full-scale American war in Vietnam.

Genres

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