tt0087553 The Killing Fields (1984)Director : Roland Joffé

Release Date : 2 November 1984 (USA)

Genre : Drama, History, War

Cast : : , Sam Waterston as Sydney Schanberg , Haing S. Ngor as Dith Pran (as Dr. Haing S Ngor) , John Malkovich as Alan 'Al' Rockoff , Julian Sands as John Swain , Craig T. Nelson as Major Reeves , Spalding Gray as U.S. Consul , Bill Paterson as Dr. MacEntire , Athol Fugard as Dr. Sundesval , Graham Kennedy as Dougal , Katherine Krapum Chey as Ser Moeum , Oliver Pierpaoli as Titony , Edward Entero Chey as Sarun , Tom Bird as U.S. Military Advisor , Monirak Sisowath as Phat - Khmer Rouge Leader , Lambool Dtangpaibool as Phat's Son

Plot : A photographer is held inside Cambodia in the course of tyrant Pol Pot’s bloody “Year Zero” cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million “undesirable” civilians.

Run Time : 141 min

Country : UK

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Language : English | French | Khmer

Filming Locations : Bangkok, Thailand

Company : Enigma (First Casualty) Ltd.

Trivia : Haing S. Ngor became the initially Southeast Asian (and the initially Buddhist) to triumph an Academy Award inside an working role.

Goofs : Continuity: When Sydney is dropping a line to Dith Pran inside his room, Sydney’s hairstyle allow between shots. It runs enjoys neatly combed to floating slurp excess of his forehead to neatly combed again.

Tag Lines : He was a reporter for the New York Times whose coverage of the Cambodian War would win him a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. But the friend who made it possible was half the world away with his life in great danger… This is the story of war and friendship, the anguish of a country and of one man's will to live.
Every so often, there is a film that is destined to be talked about and remembered for years to come.

Plot Summary : Sydney Schanberg is a New York Times writer covering the civil attempt inside Cambodia. Together and local representative Dith Pran, they protection different of the crisis furthermore madness of the war. When the American forces leave, Dith Pran forward his cast and them, other than stays in the rear of himself to cooperate with Schanberg protection the event. As an American, Schanberg won’t undergo any snag discarding the country, other than the position is peculiar given that Pran; he’s a local, furthermore the Khmer Rouge are running in.

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