Film shot in 1980s Phnom Penh gives glimpse of city under KR

[geovalin]

Bennett Murray and Mao Monkolransey

In the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge, a film crew recreated some of the regime’s most horrific acts in the capital. Forgotten for decades, the feature has finally been subtitled in English

The place is Phnom Penh, 1979, immediately following the fall of Pol Pot. A grainy film shows a Czechoslovakian doctor walking through the debris around the deserted Central Market.

Amid piles of shoes is a grandfather clock, evidently left standing in the street since the city had been evacuated four years earlier.

He winds up the derelict artefact of a lost time and a chime rings out.

Viewers would be excused for believing they’re watching genuine footage of Phnom Penh days after the city’s liberation.

read more: http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/film-shot-1980s-phnom-penh-gives-glimpse-city-under-kr

[Emster23]

Could someone please tell headline writer that 1979 is in the 70's, not 80's.

[Suradit69]

Could someone please tell headline writer that 1979 is in the 70's, not 80's.

Probably refers to the release of the film and/or it may have been in production FROM 1979 into the 80's.

As film making was still very much in its infancy in the 1980s, it may've been the only co-production movie set and filmed solely in Cambodia during that era, unless you know different.

http://blog.andybrouwer.co.uk/2009/05/nine-circles-of-hell.html

FEATURE FILM - The Czech-Cambodian film NINE CIRCLES OF HELL (1989, 105 min) is a poignant love story set amid the hell of the Pol Pot regime. As the Khmer Rouge carves a path of death throughout the land, a Czech doctor Milan Knazko falls in love with a Cambodian woman OumSavanny. Milan Muchna’s film was screened in the “Un Certain Regard” section at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival. We invite you for the premiere screening of the English-subtitled version, which has been produced by Meta House.

Edited July 18, 2015 by Suradit69

[Sheryl]

An inappropriate post and an equally inappropriate response to same have been removed.

[HooHaa]

Could someone please tell headline writer that 1979 is in the 70's, not 80's.

the film is depicting 1979 - it was filmed in the late 80s and released in 1989.

the article refers to that saying PP changed very little before 1990.

the headline writer was right.