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The Lover

7.019921h 55m18MovieDramaRomance

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.

DirectorJean-Jacques Annaud
WritersGérard Brach·Jean-Jacques Annaud
ProducerClaude Berri

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Cast · Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud

JMJane March
Jane March
The Young Girl
TKTony Leung Ka-fai
Tony Leung Ka-fai
The Chinaman
FMFrédérique Meininger
Frédérique Meininger
The Mother
AGArnaud Giovaninetti
Arnaud Giovaninetti
The Elder Brother
MPMelvil Poupaud
Melvil Poupaud
The Younger Brother
LF
Lisa Faulkner
Helene Lagonelle
JMJeanne Moreau
Jeanne Moreau
Narrator (voice)
XM
Xiem Mang
The Chinaman's Father
PDPhilippe Le Dem
Philippe Le Dem
The French Teacher
AS
Ann Schaufuss
Anne-Marie Stretter
TTTania Torrens
Tania Torrens
The Principal
ELEspérance Pham Thai Lan
Espérance Pham Thai Lan
Femme

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