SYNOPSIS
Rithy Panh uses clay figures, archival footage, and his narration to recreate the atrocities Cambodia's Khmer Rouge committed between 1975 and 1979.
CAST & CREW
Rithy Panh
Director
Producer(s)
Catherine Dussart
Script
Rithy Panh
Director of Photography
Prum Mésa
Music by
Marc Marder
Edit
Rithy Panh, Marie-Christine Rougerie
Cast
Randal Douc
Production company(ies)
Catherine Dussart (CDP)
Rithy Panh
Acclaimed Cambodian documentary film director and screenwriter. After 1975 his family died through the genocidal Khmer Rouge government (1975-79) while he could escape in 1979 to Thailand. Panh arrived a year later in Paris, France as an orphan and stayed. Rithy Panh later studied at 'La Fémis', the French National Cinema School. In 1989, Site 2 (1989), his first documentary about Cambodian refugees, won several international awards. Since then Panh created a unique body of work consisting of documentaries and feature films that mostly deal with the modern Cambodia and the traumatic legacy of the Khmer Rouge reg
Filmography
Site 2 (1989), Souleymane Cissé (1990), Cambodge, entre guerre et paix (1991), Rice People (1994), The Tan's Family (1995), Bophana, a Cambodian Tragedy (1996), One Evening after the War (1997), 50 ans et un monde Van Chan, a Cambodian Dancer (1998), The Land of Wandering Souls (1999), Que la barque se brise, que la jonque s'entrouvre (2000), S21: The Khmer Rouge Death Machine (2003), The People of Angkor (2003), The Burnt Theatre (2005), Paper Cannot Wrap up Embers (2006), The Sea Wall (2008), Duch, le Maître des Forges de l’Enfer (2010), Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell (2011), Gibier d’elevage (2011), Shiku (2011), The Missing Picture (2014).
