Thanks for the information.
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On Jan 24, 2010, at 3:16 AM, Chon Chumleas <[email protected]>
wrote:
Sundance film festival: Utah
Enemies of the People will screen:
Sunday, Jan. 24, at 9 p.m. at Park City's Holiday Village IV
Tuesday, Jan. 26 at 11:30 p.m. at Park City's Library Center Theatre
Wednesday, Jan. 27 at 9:45 p.m. at Salt Lake City's Broadway Cinemas
Friday, Jan. 29 at 6 p.m. at Park City's Egyptian Theatre
On Jan 24, 7:26 am, [email protected] wrote:
Interesting. Is this film released to the public yet?
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On Jan 24, 2010, at 1:52 AM, Chon Chumleas <[email protected]>
wrote:
Enemies of the People
01/23/10
By Dan Nailen
Salt Lake Magazine (Utah, USA)
Thet Sambath is a Cambodian newspaper journalist whose father was
murdered by the Khmer Rouge in 1974, and whose mother was forced to
marry a Khmer Rouge militiaman two years later.
For a decade, Sambath spent his free time journeying into the
notorious "killing fields" of his home country to try and understand
why so many of Cambodia's people were murdered. The result of that
work is Enemies of the People, which Sambeth co-directed and
produced
with Rob Lemkin.
The film revolves around the relationship Sambath established with
Nuon Chea, aka "Brother Number Two" (pictured below with Sambeth)
and
dictator Pol Pot's right-hand man. It took Sambeth years of gaining
Chea's trust before he opened up and admitted that he and Pol Pot
had
plotted the killings as a means of defending their communist vision
from "enemies of the people." Chea doesn't ever express remorse for
the program he calls the "solution," but he does to Sambeth directly
when the reporter tells the old man about his own family's
relationship with the Khmer Rouge.
Sambath also tracks down several of the Khmer Rouge's foot soldiers,
mostly peasants and farmers who were simply "following orders" when
they slit the throats of their neighbors and buried them in mass
graves. It's chilling to watch one of the men graphically illustrate
how he would kill his victims, and it's intriguing to see how each
of
these murderers deals with what they've done all these years later.
Enemies of the People could prove to be an important historical
document for decades to come. Sambeth kept his recorded
conversations
with Nuon Chea under lock and key for years, in fear they'd be
confiscated and used as evidence in a trial. Indeed, the film ends
with Nuon Chea's arrest by a joint force of the United Nations and
Cambodia. He's charged with crimes against humanity and war
crimes, as
well as genocide, and his trial is slated, for now, for 2011.
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