The Killing Fields
The Killing Fields directed by Roland Joffé released in 1984- February 1, 1985 in the US filmed in six different locations- Bangkok, Thailand , New York City , Phuket, Thailand , Hua Hin, Thailand at the Railway Hotel , Toronto, Ontario at the Royal York Hotel the film was nominated for 13 and won 8 BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Awards and three Academy Awards movie is based on the experiences of two journalists; Cambodian Dith Pran and American Sydney Schanberg major characters- Haing S Ngor who plays Dith Pran and Sam Waterston as Sydney Schanberg
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087553/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087553/locations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Killing_Fields_(film)
Revolutionaries of Cambodia the Khmer Rouge- the followers of the Communist Party of Kampuchea in Cambodia party was formed in 1968 led by Pol Pot, Nuon Chea, and Ieng Sary
Pol Pot (Saloth Sar) born in 1925 into a farming family in central Cambodia at age 20, he traveled to study radio electronics but became absorbed in Marxism and neglected his studies lost his scholarship and returned to Cambodia and joined the underground Communist movement by 1962 he had become the leader of the Cambodian Communist Party and was forced to flee into the jungle to escape Prince Norodom Sihanouk while in the jungle, he formed an armed resistance movement that became know as Khmer Rouge
Nuon Chea (Long Bunruot) born July 7, 1926 commonly known as “Brother Number Two”
Chea was elected the President of the Standing Committee of the Kampuchean People’s Representative Assembly he briefly held office as Prime Minister when Pol Pot resigned for a month, due to health reasons on December 29, 1998, following a bargain with the government, Chea surrendered as a part of the Khmer Rouge on September 19, 2007, Nuon Chea was finally arrested at his home in Pailin and flown to the Cambodia Tribunal in Phnom Phen where he was charged with war
Sources:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087553/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087553/locations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Killing_Fields_(film)
Revolutionaries of Cambodia the Khmer Rouge- the followers of the Communist Party of Kampuchea in Cambodia party was formed in 1968 led by Pol Pot, Nuon Chea, and Ieng Sary
Pol Pot (Saloth Sar) born in 1925 into a farming family in central Cambodia at age 20, he traveled to study radio electronics but became absorbed in Marxism and neglected his studies lost his scholarship and returned to Cambodia and joined the underground Communist movement by 1962 he had become the leader of the Cambodian Communist Party and was forced to flee into the jungle to escape Prince Norodom Sihanouk while in the jungle, he formed an armed resistance movement that became know as Khmer Rouge
Nuon Chea (Long Bunruot) born July 7, 1926 commonly known as “Brother Number Two”
Chea was elected the President of the Standing Committee of the Kampuchean People’s Representative Assembly he briefly held office as Prime Minister when Pol Pot resigned for a month, due to health reasons on December 29, 1998, following a bargain with the government, Chea surrendered as a part of the Khmer Rouge on September 19, 2007, Nuon Chea was finally arrested at his home in Pailin and flown to the Cambodia Tribunal in Phnom Phen where he was charged with war