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The director Rithy Panh dramatizes events from 1978, when a group of outsiders was allowed to enter Cambodia under the Khmer ...
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.
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 ...
Nate Thayer asked Pol Pot, referring to the Khmer Rouge genocide in the 1970s that claimed an estimated 1.7 million lives. The answer was evasive. Accessibility statement Skip to main content ...
The Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh, whose films have long borne witness to the country’s murderous Khmer Rouge regime of the ...
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 ...
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' ...
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, 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 ...
Rithy Panh continues to bear witness to the history of Cambodia in Meeting With Pol Pot. His typically resourceful, freely-adapted dramatisation draws upon Elizabeth Becker’s expansive non ...