The Quiet American ( Der stille Amerikaner ) ( The Spy )

The Quiet American (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: Der stille Amerikaner
Alternate Title: The Spy
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Golden Globes
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
English ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
101 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Commentary
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2002 and produced in:
Australia ( Australia, New Zealand )
France ( France, Benelux )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Phillip Noyce

Written By:
Graham Greene
Christopher Hampton

Actors:
Michael Caine ..... Thomas Fowler
Brendan Fraser ..... Alden Pyle
Do Thi Hai Yen ..... Phuong
Rade Serbedzija ..... Inspector Vigot
Tzi Ma ..... Hinh
Robert Stanton ..... Joe Tunney
Holmes Osborne ..... Bill Granger
Quang Hai ..... General Thé
Ferdinand Hoang ..... Mr. Muoi
Pham Thi Mai Hoa ..... Phuong's Sister
Mathias Mlekuz ..... French Captain
Kevin Tran ..... Watch Tower Soldier
Lap Phan ..... Watch Tower Soldier
Tim Bennett ..... American Photographer
Jeff Truman ..... Dancing American

Synopsis:

The mood of wry disillusion that seeps through the screen adaptation of Graham Greene's novel "The Quiet American" is sounded in the movie's opening moments by the voice of Michael Caine musing dreamily on the mystique of Saigon in the early 1950's. It is a place, declares his character, Thomas Fowler, where colors and tastes seem sharper than they do elsewhere and where even the rain has a special intensity. Fowler is a wistfully cynical British journalist who has fled an arid marriage in England to live in Southeast Asia, where he is reporting on the Vietnamese fight for independence from French colonial rule. Fowler may be the richest character of Mr. Caine's screen career. Slipping into his skin with an effortless grace, this great English actor gives a performance of astonishing understatement whose tone wavers delicately between irony and sadness

Saigon, 1952, a beautiful, exotic, and mysterious city caught in the grips of the Vietnamese war of liberation from the French colonial powers. New arrival Alden Pyle, an idealistic American aid worker, befriends London Times correspondent Thomas Fowler. When Fowler introduces Pyle to his beautiful young Vietnamese mistress Phuong the three become swept up in a tempestuous love triangle that leads to a series of startling revelations and finally - murder. Nothing, and no one, is as it seems, in this adaptation of Graham Greene's classic and prophetic story of love, betrayal, murder and the origin of the American war in Vietnam.

In Saigon, 1951, Thomas Fowler is an English journalist, married in England with a catholic woman, and in love with a Vietnamese girl, Phuong. Thomas meets Alden Pyle in a bar. Pyle is a doctor working in an aid mission, and pretty soon, he falls in love with Phuong. Pyle offers her what Thomas is not possible to give, i.e., a marriage and escape of Vietnam. Meanwhile, the political situation in Vietnam is boiling, with the French trying to get control again of the country, the communists trying to impose their system to the South, and the American secretly giving support to a third Vietnamese part.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 25 October, 2011.

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