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Apr 03, 2014akirakato rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
This is a 1984 British film set in Democratic Kampuchea. The story is based on the experiences of two people: American journalist Sydney Schanberg and his aid-translator Cambodian Dith Pran. When the Khmer Rouge captured Phnom Penh in 1975, many thought the killing would end. Instead it started a long nightmare in which three million Cambodians would die in the "killing field." While covering the war in Cambodia, Schanberg is captured and Pran saves him from execution, but Pran is sentenced to labor camps, enduring starvation and torture before escaping to Thailand. It is a heart-wrenching, shocking and emotionally-charged documentary-style drama. Dith Pran returned, with Sydney Schanberg, to America to be reunited with his family. He now works as a photographer for The New York Times where Sydney Schanberg is a columnist. Cambodia's torment has not yet ended. The refugee camps on the Thai border are still crowded with the children of the "killing fields."