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The killing fields [videorecording (DVD)].

2001

Format:	DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials
Title:	The killing fields [videorecording (DVD)].

Publisher, Date:	Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, 2001. ©1984
Description:	1 videodisc (DVD) (141 min.) : sd., col.
Target Audience Note:	MPAA rating: R.
Credits:	Producer, David Puttman; director, Roland Jaffe; screenplay, Bruce Robinson.
Performers:	Sam Waterston, Dr. Haing S. Ngor, Craig T. Nelson, John Malkovich.

Summary:	Dith Pran is an aide, translator and friend of foreign journalists who are covering the war in Cambodia. When the Khmer Rouge take power he manages to save his journalist friends from execution, but he is eventually exiled to the labor camps in Cambodia's countryside, where he endures four years of starvation, torture and war before escaping to Thailand.
Notes:	Special features: audio commentary by the director ; subtitles: English and French. Adapted from the true story "The Death and life of Dith Pran" by Sidney Schanberg, in the New York Times Magazine. Producer, David Puttman; director, Roland Jaffe; screenplay, Bruce Robinson. Sam Waterston, Dr. Haing S. Ngor, Craig T. Nelson, John Malkovich. In English with optional subtitles in English or French; closed captioned in English for the hearing impaired.

Subjects:	Dith Pran, 1942-2008 -- Drama. Schanberg, Sydney H. (Sydney Hillel), 1934- -- Drama. Feature films. Cambodia -- History -- 1975-1979 -- Drama. DVDs.
Other Author:	Ngor, Haing. Schanberg, Sydney H. (Sydney Hillel), 1934- Death and life of Dith Pran.

ISBN:	0790749424
UPC:	085391141921
Control Number:	421958

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