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Title The Angkar
Production Date 1981
Country of Production GDR (German Democratic Republic)
Duration 01:31:20
Production Company Studio H & S
Film Subject Era Post-1975
Genre Documentary
Summary Solemn documentary exploring the treatment of internees at Tuol Sleng prison in Cambodia during the regime of Pol Pot. [WARNING: distressing content and graphic images featuring the corpses of prisoners and children.]
Subjects Anti-Chinese sentiments; Children; Political prisoners; Prison camps; Prisons; Prisoners; Torture; Photography; Death; Civilian deaths; Interrogations; Communism; Communist Party (Kampuchea); Second World War (1939-1945); Assassinations; Holocaust; Experiments; Marxism; Leninism; Mass murder; Genocide; Army; Wars; Marxism-Leninism
Director Heynowski, Walter; Scheumann, Gerhard
Contributors
Script:
Heynowski, Walter, Scheumann, Gerhard

Camera:
Hellmich, Peter, Donth, Horst, Goldner, Winfried

Special Effects:
Goldner, Winfried, Wischnewski, Traute

Film Editor:
Wischnewski, Traute

Graphic Designer:
Martsch, Walter

Script editor:
Michel, Robert, Polentx, Wolfgang von

Translator:
Ul Kong, Sam, Sacher, Ruth, Pheby, John, Peet, John

Editor:
Radtke, Ilse

Music:
Stockigt, Siegfried

Sound:
Berger, Manfred, Schwarz, Eberhard

Production Manager:
Remmert, Mathias

People Pol Pot (1925-1998); Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969); Ieng Sart (1925-2013); Khieu Samphan (1931-); Mao Zedong (1893-1976); Sơn Ngọc Minh (1920-1972); Cline, Ray S. (1918-1996)
Places Cambodia (Kampuchea); Tuol Sleng; Phnom Penh; Berlin; Germany; Vietnam; Laos
Fiction/Non Fiction Non Fiction
Sound Sound
Colour Format Colour
Film Format 35mm Comb col pos
Language English (Narrator)
Module Wars & Revolutions
BFI Identifier N-504026
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