Screenplay: Régis Wargnier, Antoine Audouard
based upon François Bizot's memoirs
Cinematographer: Renaud Chassaing
Editing: Yann Malcor, Véronique Lange
Sound: Antoine Deflandre, Roland Voglaire, Stéphane Rabeau, Franco Piscopo
Music: Quentin Boniface
Casting: Raphaël Personnaz, Kompheak Phoeung, Olivier Gourmet, Thanet Thorn, Boren Chhith, Ratana Soth
Production: Les Films du Cap, Gaumont
Distribution:
Gaumont
30 avenue Charles de Gaulle
92 200 Neuilly-sur-Seine
France
Tel: 0033 1 46 43 20 00
Year: 2014
DCP, Color, 95 min, OV Khmer and English with French subtitles
While French ethnologist François Bizot is working on the restoration of Angkor temples, he is caught by the Khmer Rouge. Prisoner in a camp lost in the middle of the jungle, Bizot is accused of spying for CIA. His only salvation is to convince young camp leader Douch he is innocent. While the French man discovers the reality of the Khmer Rouge recruitment, the prisoner and his jailer tie indefinable links…
“These two men, who hardly reached maturity, are going to live and face situations full of tension and danger, whereas by their own past and experiences had not prepare them. Douch’s political fight and guerilla compensate for his youth; Bizot could only cling to his anger and impetuousness, which should have done him a disservice and sentence him. It is in fact this very ill-considered but genuine attitude that made Douch doubt about the French man’s guilt. ” Régis Wargnier.