The Quiet American

Australia, Germany, United Kingdom, United States of America and Vietnam, 2002

Film

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A stylish political thriller where love and war collide in Southeast Asia. Set in early 1950s Vietnam, a young American becomes entangled in a dangerous love triangle when he falls for the beautiful mistress of a British journalist. As war is waged around them, these three only sink deeper into a world of drugs, passion, and betrayal where nothing is as it seems.

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Credits

director

Phillip Noyce

producer

Matthias Deyle

Staffan Ahrenberg

William Horberg

production company

Giai Phong Film Studio

IMF Internationale Medien und Film GmbH & Co. 2. Produktions KG

Intermedia Films

Mirage Enterprises

Miramax

Saga Pictures

production design

Roger Ford

screenplay

Christopher Hampton

Robert Schenkkan

Duration

01:41:00

Production dates
2002

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

tmdb-movie-8198

Language

English

Subject categories

Drama

Romance

Thriller

TMDB-Movie

8198

Wikidata

Q464653

Collected

47 times

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