Meeting with Pol Pot
- Demande de rendez-vous avec Pol Pot (aka Rendez-vous avec Pol Pot) (Working title)
Feature Film | 2023-2024 | Drama | Cambodia, France
Main data
| Director | Rithy Panh |
|---|---|
| Written by | Rithy Panh, Pierre-Erwan Guillaume, Elizabeth Becker [1] (literary source) |
| Production | Siècle Productions [fr], Anupheap Production [kh], CDP - Catherine Dussart Production [fr] |
| Distributor | Playtime [fr], Dulac Distribution [fr] |
Brief synopsis
Democratic Kampuchea (Cambodia) - 1978. Three French journalists are invited by the Khmer Rouge to conduct an exclusive interview of the regime's leader, Pol Pot. The country seems ideal. But behind the Potemkin village, the Khmer Rouge regime is declining and the war with Vietnam threatens to invade the country. The regime is looking for culprits, secretly carrying out a large scale genocide. Under the eyes of the journalists, the beautiful picture cracks, revealing the horror. Their journey progressively turns into a nightmare. Freely inspired by journalist Elizabeth Becker's account in When the war was over.