Dust of Empire (movie)
Poussière d'empire- User score: 7.8
- Production country: France
- Producer: Lâm Lê
- Production companies: Uranium Films, France 3 Cinéma
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 10/5/1983
- Run time: 103 min.
Movie description
In 1954, escorted by a sergeant, a French nun travels through Tonkin, spreading the good Catholic word as she goes. A mute child leads her to a remote village. Installed at a carpenter, the travelers prepare the projection material indispensable to their propaganda. At nightfall, in a storm, a group of maquisards surrounded the house. Fortunately, the carpenter is a respected man. The attackers withdraw. After a sudden rise in water, the mute child loses the precious message that had been entrusted to him by a wounded maquis...
