Underplayed Gems

Pov Chouk Sar (1967)

Pov Chouk Sar poster
Country
Cambodia
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The catalogue in 3D

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How it feels

A girl who was once an angel must live as a human for 17 months to return to her angel sisters. She falls in love with a man who goes to war, unaware that she can change back to an angel at any time.

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What happens

Pao Chouk Saw (Khmer: ពៅឈូកស) is the story of a girl who was once an angel and later became a human for a particular reason. In order to return to her sisters as an angel again, she has to live in the human world with regular human beings for 17 whole months. She then ends up falling in love with a regular guy. But soon he has to leave her behind for a war without knowing that she is actually an angel taking form of a human being and that she can change back to an angel any time soon after he leaves for the war. He leaves having no idea that once he return from war, she may be gone forever. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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