Enemies of the People (2009)

Directed by

Rob Lemkin, Thet Sambath

Genre

documentary film

Country

Cambodia, United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 33m

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 13 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Cambodian journalist spends a decade seeking out former Khmer Rouge leaders and foot soldiers to understand the massacre of nearly two million people. He interviews them face to face, asking why they killed and how they live with the memories.

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What happens

Enemies of the People is a 2009 British-Cambodian documentary film written and directed by Rob Lemkin and Thet Sambath. The film depicts the 10-year quest of co-director Sambath to find truth and closure in the Killing Fields of Cambodia. The film features interviews of former Khmer Rouge officials from the most senior surviving leader to the men and women who slit throats during the regime of Democratic Kampuchea between 1975 and 1979. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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