The Killing Fields

United Kingdom, 1984

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The real-life story of a friendship between two journalists, an American and a Cambodian, during the bloody Khmer Rouge takeover of Cambodia in 1975, which led to the death of 2-3 million Cambodians during the next four years, until Pol Pot’s regime was toppled by the intervening Vietnamese in 1979.

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Credits

director

Roland Joffé

costume design

Judy Moorcroft

producer

David Puttnam

production company

Enigma Productions

International Film Investors

production design

Roy Walker

screenplay

Bruce Robinson

Duration

02:22:00

Production places
United Kingdom
Production dates
1984

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

tmdb-movie-625

Language

English

Subject categories

Drama

History

War

TMDB-Movie

625

Wikidata

Q494582

Collected

128 times

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