Meeting with Pol Pot Movie Trailer HD - From Writer & Director Rithy Panh, starring Irène Jacob, Grégoire Colin, and Cyril Gueï - Meeting with Pol Pot.
Meeting with Pol Pot was freely inspired by journalist Elizabeth Becker's account in When The War Was Over.
Democratic Kampuchea (Cambodia) - 1978. Three French journalists are invited by the Khmer Rouge to conduct an exclusive interview of the regime’s leader, Pol Pot. The country seems ideal. But behind the Potemkin village, the Khmer Rouge regime is declining and the war with Vietnam threatens to invade the country. The regime is looking for culprits, secretly carrying out a large scale genocide. Under the eyes of the journalists, the beautiful picture cracks, revealing the horror. Their journey progressively turns into a nightmare.
Meeting with Pol Pot was freely inspired by journalist Elizabeth Becker's account in When The War Was Over.
Democratic Kampuchea (Cambodia) - 1978. Three French journalists are invited by the Khmer Rouge to conduct an exclusive interview of the regime’s leader, Pol Pot. The country seems ideal. But behind the Potemkin village, the Khmer Rouge regime is declining and the war with Vietnam threatens to invade the country. The regime is looking for culprits, secretly carrying out a large scale genocide. Under the eyes of the journalists, the beautiful picture cracks, revealing the horror. Their journey progressively turns into a nightmare.
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00:00A year later
00:20Hello comrade
00:22I am Souv, the foreign affairs minister
00:24I didn't recognize you
00:26I was at the Sorbonne with him
00:28I will take you to Provence
00:30You will discover the real state of the country
00:32Which has nothing to do with
00:34What we do in Western propaganda
00:36We will make agricultural instruments
00:40We are journalists
00:42I want a real cooperative
00:44The revolution must make a clean slate of the past
00:46Absolutely
00:48Wait, we're not going to walk around like tourists
00:50I'm not a friend of the party
00:52We are lucky to be able to visit this country
00:54At a crucial moment in its history
00:56It's the last time comrade
00:58We must obey the orders of the encargue
01:02Many refugees claim that intellectuals
01:04Have been killed
01:08Why are you coming up?
01:10What have you done Paul?
01:12You didn't understand anything about our revolution
01:18Nothing or no one
01:20Can stop us from doing
01:22Our new society projects
01:24The encargue
01:26Will create new men
01:28From the class of poor peasants
01:30Ending two thousand years of history
01:32Which have led to materialism
01:34And decadence
01:36Returning to original purity
01:38Those who can be reformed
01:40Will be
01:42The others will be eliminated