The full content of this document is only available to subscribing institutions. More information can be found via www.amdigital.co.uk

Title Kampuchea from Tragedy to Rebirth
Production Date 1982
Country of Production USSR; Tajikistan
Duration 00:45:57
Production Company Tajikfilm Studios
Film Subject Era 1954-1975; Post-1975
Genre Documentary
Summary Account of the history of Kampuchea (Cambodia) from the late 1960s to the early 1980s from a perspective sympathetic to the Vietnamese forces who invaded the country and overthrew Pol Pot in 1978. [WARNING: graphic scenes of dead bodies and starvation.]
Subjects Agriculture and farming; Fishing; Aid; Traditional dance; Songs; Traditional music; Cambodian Civil War (1970-1975); Genocide; Khmer Rouge; Education; Murder; Death; Communism; Industry; Prisoners; Bombing; Religion; Buddhism; Religious groups; Construction; Land mines; Wars
Director Kuzii, Eugene
Contributors
Script:
Itskov, Igor

Photography:
Pestrolobov, Aleksandr

People Pol Pot (1925-1998); Marx, Karl (1818-1883); Andropov, Yuri (1914-1984); Heng Samrin (1934-); Norodom Sihanouk (1922-2012); Son Sann (1911-2000)
Places Cambodia (Kampuchea); Mekong River; Angkor Wat; Battambang; Phnom Penh; Tuol Sleng; USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
Fiction/Non Fiction Non Fiction
Sound Sound
Colour Format Colour
Language English (Narrator)
Module Wars & Revolutions
Copyright The British Film Institute