MEETING WITH POL POT

RENDEZ-VOUS AVEC POL POT

By Rithy PANH

PLAYTIME - as SALES All rights, World

Drama - Completed 2024


Festivals
& Awards

Festival de Cannes 2024
Cannes Premiere
Busan IFF 2024
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    • Year of production
    • 2024
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • CAMBODIA, FRANCE
    • Languages
    • KHMER
    • Duration
    • 112 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Rithy PANH
    • Synopsis
    • Democratic Kampuchea (Cambodia) - 1978. Three French journalists are invited by the Khmer Rouge to conduct an exclusive interview of the regime's leader, Pol Pot. The country seems ideal. But behind the Potemkin village, the Khmer Rouge regime is declining and the war with Vietnam threatens to invade the country. The regime is looking for culprits, secretly carrying out a large scale genocide. Under the eyes of the journalists, the beautiful picture cracks, revealing the horror. Their journey progressively turns into a nightmare.
      Freely inspired by journalist Elizabeth Becker's account in When the war was over.