A documentary directed and produced by Thet Sambath and Rob Lemkin about the former’s journey to find and interview the killers of the Khmer Rouge, including Nuon Chea, second in command to Pol Pot. Subtly powerful. Patrick gives it 0 crickets.
Official Film Site
Enemies of the People Trailer
From Their Website:
The Khmer Rouge ran what is regarded [...]
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Inception Trailer
THE ÜBER-LONG SYNOPSIS FROM WIKIPEDIA (W/ SPOILERS):
Dominic Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) washes up on a beach and is brought before an elderly man by guards. [...]
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AN EGREGIOUSLY LONG SYNOPSIS FROM WIKIPEDIA:
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Last Train Home Trailer
FROM THEIR WEBSITE:
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Hot Tub Time Machine Trailer:
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The Mikado Project Trailer
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Au Revoir Taipei Trailer
SYNOPSIS:
Kai, a brokenhearted young man from Taipei, yearns to be with his girlfriend, who’s left for Paris. He spends his days working at his parents’ noodle restaurant and his nights trying to learn French at the local bookstore, where he [...]
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The Mountain Thief Trailer
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Raspberry Magic Trailer
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The People I’ve Slept With Trailer
STOLEN SYNOPSIS:
Angela Yang (Karin Anna Cheung) loves sex. She loves it so much she needs to make baseball cards of her lovers to help her remember where [...]
A documentary directed and produced by Thet Sambath and Rob Lemkin about the former’s journey to find and interview the killers of the Khmer Rouge, including Nuon Chea, second in command to Pol Pot. Subtly powerful. Patrick gives it 0 crickets.
Official Film Site
Enemies of the People Trailer
From Their Website:
The Khmer Rouge ran what is regarded as one of the twentieth century’s most brutal regimes. Yet the Killing Fields of Cambodia remain unexplained. Until now.
In ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE the men and women who perpetrated the massacres – from the foot-soldiers who slit throats to the party’s ideological leader, Nuon Chea aka Brother Number Two – break a 30-year silence to give testimony never before heard or seen.
Unprecedented access from top to bottom of the Khmer Rouge has been achieved through a decade of work by one of Cambodia’s best investigative journalists, Thet Sambath.
Sambath is on a personal quest: he lost his own family in the Killing Fields. The film is his journey to discover not how but why they died. In doing so, he hears and understands for the first time the real story of his country’s tragedy.
After years of visits and trust-building, Sambath finally persuades Brother Number Two to admit (again, for the first time) in detail how he and Pol Pot (the two supreme powers in the Khmer Rouge state) decided to kill party members whom they considered ‘Enemies of the People’.
Sambath’s remarkable work goes even one stage further: over the years he befriends a network of killers in the provinces who implemented the kill policy. For the first time, we see how orders created on an abstract political level translate into foul murder in the rice fields and forests of the Cambodian plain.
We have repeatedly used the expression ‘for the first time’. This is because Sambath’s work represents a watershed both in Cambodian historiography and in the country’s quest for closure on one of the world’s darkest episodes.
The United Nations and the Cambodian government have set up a tribunal to try the senior leaders of the Khmer Rouge for international crimes. Brother Number Two’s trial is expected to start in 2010.
The trials are widely expected to deliver a form of justice but fewer expect the truth finally to come out through this process.
Sambath says: “Some may say no good can come from talking to killers and dwelling on past horror, but I say these people have sacrificed a lot to tell the truth. In daring to confess they have done good, perhaps the only good thing left. They and all the killers like them must be part of the process of reconciliation if my country is to move forward.”
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