Director Rithy Panh has chronicled Cambodia's horrors in many documentaries. His pivot to a drama starring Irène Jacob is ...

In Meeting With Pol Pot, he presents a fictionalized version of a 1978 visit by three foreign journalists to Cambodia, which was closed off to the world after the Khmer Rouge seized power in 1975 ...

Saloth Sâr, aka Pol Pot Pictures From History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. The future Pol Pot attended university in Paris, where he was radicalized.

The director Rithy Panh dramatizes events from 1978, when a group of outsiders was allowed to enter Cambodia under the Khmer ...

Rithy Panh's return to the Killing Fields with Rendez-vous avec Pol Pot, ... 2 Warner Bros. Pictures Unveils Release Date For Chinese Co-Production 'Tom And Jerry: Forbidden Compass' ...

Pol Pot almost never spoke to journalists, and rarely, if ever, told the truth about his background. In the 1977 conversation, he paints a humble picture of his childhood – saying he grew up the ...

Strand Releasing has bought North American rights to Rithy Panh’s “Meeting With Pol Pot" which premiered at Cannes and is Cambodia's Oscar entry.

Nate Thayer in 1997, speaking at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club in Bangkok after his interview with Pol Pot. Credit... Lance Woodruff/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images ...

Nate Thayer, a hard-charging freelance reporter who survived several brushes with death over decades covering conflict in Southeast Asia and was the last Western journalist to interview Pol Pot ...

Pol Pot died in 1998 near the Cambodia-Thai border, as disparate remnants of his regime continued to resist the government 20 years after it was toppled.