Deacon of Death (2004)

Directed by

Jan van den Berg

Genre

documentary film

Country

Netherlands

Runtime

1h 45m

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Cambodian woman who survived the Khmer Rouge faces the man she believes killed her family decades ago. The man still lives in the same village and was never punished for his actions.

confrontationalsomberintimateunsettlingquietpainfultense

What happens

Deacon of Death is a 2004 Dutch documentary film by film director Jan van den Berg and Willem van de Put and was produced by DRS Films. The film introduces Sok Chea, a victim of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia in the 70s, as she confronts Karoby, the man she remembers killing her family and others in their village when she was a child. Karoby has never been brought to trial and still lives in the village where the atrocities took place. In 2004, the film had a fairly successful theatrical release and won the Golden Calf for best long documentary. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

• The Price of Survival (2003)
• Angkar (2018)
• Red Wedding (2012)
• Enemies of the People (2009)
• Dogora: Ouvrons les yeux (2004)
• Pappa is weg en ik wilde nog wat vragen (2007)
• S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (2003)
• Hidden Flaws (2004)