This movie is also called Dust of life in English and was made by Alex Bouchareb in 1994.　　In 1975, 3 kids decide to escape a reeducation camp in the Vietnamese equatorial forest near Cambodia where the Amerasians are imprisoned, tortured both mentally and physically. Son, the hero is sent in that camp after her mother fails to find his father to send him away to America.　　Search the web for the title to find more information. You can find the poster of the movie on cineposters dot com.　　Kind of reminds me of Papillon or the Killing Fields though maybe a notch down in terms of realization... This movie is based on facts from the after war.

法国占领越南的最后年代里，法国贵妇艾丽亚娜（凯瑟琳·德纳芙 Catherine Deneuve 饰）在越南南部经营橡胶园，她收养了父母双亡的越南公主卡米尔（范林丹 Linh Dan Pham 饰），两人相依生活。艾丽亚娜爱上年轻的越南殖民军海军军官詹·巴普蒂斯（文森特·佩雷斯 Vincent Perez 饰），但后来詹却与卡米尔陷入爱河。卡米尔誓死要嫁于詹，并离家出走追随詹去越南北方的龙岛。路途中，卡米尔因误杀一名法国军官遭到追杀，两人开始逃亡。途中，他们生下了儿子艾蒂安纳，最终两人被捕，儿子交予外祖母艾丽亚娜抚养。詹拒绝回国受审，愤慨自尽；卡米尔因大赦出狱，当艾丽亚娜前去接她回家时，卡米尔义无反顾地离开了这个家，成为一名坚定的越南民族独立共产党人。数年后，当艾蒂安纳再次见到作为越南代表团成员参加日内瓦谈判的母亲时，两人已然淡漠生分。　　本片获第65届奥斯卡金像奖最佳外语片。