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Title: S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (2003)
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Khieu 'Poev' Ches | ... | Self - Guard |
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Yeay Cheu | ... | Self - Him Houy's Mother |
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Nhem En | ... | Self - Photographer (as Nhiem Ein) |
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Houy Him | ... | Self - Security deputy |
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Ta Him | ... | Self - Him Houy's Father |
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Nhieb Ho | ... | Self - Guard |
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Prakk Kahn | ... | Self - the Torturer |
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Peng Kry | ... | Self - Driver |
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Som Meth | ... | Self - Guard |
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Chum Mey | ... | Self - Survivor |
| Vann Nath | ... | Self - Survivor | |
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Top Pheap | ... | Self - Interrogator & Typist |
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Tcheam Seur | ... | Self - Guard |
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Sours Thi | ... | Self - Head of Registers |
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Mak Thim | ... | Self - S21 Doctor |
Between 1975 and 1979, the communist inspired Khmer Rouge waged a campaign of terror and mass murder on Cambodia's population. Up to 1.7 mill. Cambodians lost their lives to famine, hard labor and murder as the urban population was forced into the countryside to fulfill the Khmer Rouge's dream of an agrarian utopia. In the former Security Prison 21 (code-named "S21"), which was once a high school and is today the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, director Rithy Panh brings two of the few survivors back to discuss what happened there between 1975 and 1979. Painter Vann Nath survived by chance and didn't suffer the same fate as 17,000 other men, women and children who were taken there, tortured and their so-called 'crimes' meticulously documented to justify their execution. The ex-Khmer Rouge guards respond to Nath's questions with excuses, chilling stoicism or apparent remorse as they recount the atrocities they committed at ages as young as 12 years old. To escape torture, the prisoners ... Written by Sujit R. Varma
This is a great movie about the Cambodian genocide. Refusing any sensational or sentimental approach, it is just made out of testimonies, and patiently, slowly tries to understand how such a thing could happen. The mechanics of the Khmer Rouge crimes, the paranoiac will to obtain (by torture) a "reason" (completely absurd) to kill their victims is terrifying. And testimony's of the torturers are striking of refusal. Patience, the intelligence and the firmness of one of the rare surviving victims give again fortunately confidence in humanity. This movie is made on a similar approach to Claude Lanzmann's "Shoah". Which means to place the testimonies in the center, and refusing any reconstitution or archive images. Maybe the only way to speak about such an event ?