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The Quiet American(Movie, 2002)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 41min | Genres: Romance / Love, Thriller, Drama
The Quiet AmericanRating: 3.3/5 (with 124124 votes)
The Quiet American is a 2002 political drama film and the adaptation of Graham Greene's bestselling 1955 novel set in Vietnam, The Quiet American. It is directed by Phillip Noyce and stars Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, and Do Thi Hai Yen. The 2002 version of The Quiet American is faithful to the novel, in contrast to the 1958 film version which abandoned Greene's cautionary tale about foreign intervention into anticommunist advocacy of American power. Like the novel, the 2002 film illustrates the moral culpability of American agents in arranging terrorist actions aimed at the French colonial government and the Viet Minh. Going beyond Greene's original work, the film used a montage ending with superimposed images of American soldiers from the intervening decades of the Vietnam War. Miramax paid $5.5 million for the rights to distribute the film in North America and some other territories, but it shelved the film when test a... ()
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Awards & Nominations for The Quiet American

National Board of Review: Top Ten Films Academy Award for Best Actor

About The Quiet American

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, the trio sinks deeper into a world of drugs, passion, and betrayal where nothing is as it seems.

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Additional Information

Based on: "The Quiet American" (find it on Amazon)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN), French (FR), Vietnamese (VI)
Translated into 21 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Georgian (KA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 05/22/2003 (World premiere: 11/22/2002)
Appearing Characters: Trinh Minh The
Director: Phillip Noyce
Producer: William Horberg
Screenwriter: Christopher Hampton
Film Editor: John Scott
Director of Photography: Christopher Doyle
Composer: Craig Armstrong
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"O Americano Tranquilo"
"El americano impasible"
"A csendes amerikai"
"Den stillsamme amerikanen"
Budget: 30,000,000 USD
Revenue: 27,674,124 USD (= 92%)

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