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The Killing Fields
The Killing Fields
drama, military
1984
United Kingdom
Roland Joffe
142 min.
Sam Waterston, Hang S. Ngor, John Malkovich, Julian Sands, Craig T. Nelson, Spitting Gray, Bill Paterson, Atol Fugard, Graham Kennedy, Catherin Krapum whose whose
Correspondent of New York Times` Sydney Schenberg writes reports about the Civil War between the Red Khmers and the government. His indispensable assistant and friend is a kind, smart and intelligent Dit Pran. As a translator and conductor, he has no equal. When the Red Khmers win, the Americans are evacuated from Cambodia. Dith Pran sends a family with them, but he himself remains with Sydney to help him write about the coup. The foreign journalist Schenberg will be able to get out of the country, but Pran`s position is completely different: he is local and completely defenseless before the revolutionary terror of the `Red Khmer` ...
