Enemies of the people : [a personal journey into the heart of the killing fields] / an Old Street Films/Thet Sambath production ; written, directed, filmed and produced by Rob Lemkin and Thet Sambath.
Edition:
Second disc special edition Anamorphic widescreen.
Publisher:
Old Street Films,
Copyright Date:
2011
Description:
2 videodiscs (94 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (26 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm)
Subtitle from container. Narrated by Thet Sambath. Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 2009. Accompanying booklet includes articles by Thet Sambath and Rob Lemkin, an essay on the videoconference: Victims + perpetrators = survivors, and a guide to the DVDs' contents. Disc 1 features include optional directors' commentary and filmmakers' extra commentary.
Contents:
(5 min.). Music video (94 min.) -- Featurette: One day at Po Chrey : anatomy of a massacre (29 min.) -- Deleted scenes. Looking for Vorn (11 min.) -- Sambath after the arrest (5 min.) -- Khoun describes the plan (5 min.) -- Map to murder (2 min.) -- Suon's extra comment (Warning: extreme content, 4 min.) -- Nuon Chea uncut. 1 (29 min.) -- Nuon Che uncut. 2 (12 min.) -- Disc 2. Videoconference: Victims, perpetrators: survivors (44 min.) -- Question & answer sessions (2 hr., 34 min.) -- Television reports (22 min.) -- Director interviews (50 min.) -- Music video (5 min.). Main feature film scenes. Reflections. Khmer Rouge come to power -- How Pol Pot became secretary general -- Ours was a peaceful regime -- Review and renactment -- Confronting a killer -- I cried secretly -- Meeting Sister Em -- Nuon Chea opens up -- Sambath's mother -- Pol Pot's big mistake -- A patriot in an unfair society -- Suon and Khoun meet Nuon Chea -- Sambath's brother -- Sambath reveals -- Human gall -- Nuon Chea's last meal -- Reflections.
Summary:
The men and women who perpetrated the Cambodian killing fields massacres -- from the foot soldiers who slit throats to the party's ideological leader, Nuon Chea, aka Brother Number Two -- break a 30-year silence to give testimony never before heard or seen. Unprecedented access from top to bottom of the Khmer Rouge has been achieved through a decade of work by one of Cambodia's top investigative journalists, Thet Sambath.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.