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This first film deals with the rise of the organization created by Pol Pot and his Khmers Rouges, the Angkar, behind which the Cambodian Communist Party hid — from the attack on a small government outpost in Bay Damran in 1968 until the defeat of the democratic Kampuchea during the Vietnamese invasion of January 1979. In Cambodia, year zero of the revolution began on April 17, 1975. The Khmers Rouges sought to make a clean slate of the past and do away with social inequality and corruption. That same day, the urban population called “People of 17 April” or the “new people,” received the order to leave immediately for the countryside. There they would endure an indescribably harsh and cruel system of forced labor. Of a total population of seven million, at least 1.7 million perished. One key scene deals with the archives of Toul Sleng, the infamous camp in Phnom Penh where the interrogations took place.

France - 2001 - 1 h 04 mn - Betacam Digital - Colour and B&W

Réalisation Adrian Maben Scénario Adrian Maben Image Christophe Bazille, Yves-Michel Dumond, Steve Gruen Son Christophe Bazille, Claude de Maeyer Montage Paul Morris, Cédric Bossard

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