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The Killing Fields

Duration: 2 hours, 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

Oscar-winning drama based on the New York Times' Sydney Schanberg's own account of his friendship with Cambodian interpreter Dith Pran.

Schanberg is one of the western journalists chronicling the fall of Cambodia to the Khmer Rouge, with the help of Cambodian journalist Dith Pran as his interpreter. When Phnom Penh itself falls, it is too dangerous for the westerners and they are, finally, evacuated. But for the Cambodian citizens who have been helping them there is no such escape route and Pran is forced to endure the brutalities of the Khmer Rouge regime, deny his past and rely on his own wits to survive and escape. Show less

Contributors

Sydney Schanberg:
Sam Waterston
Dith Pran:
Haing S Ngor
Military Attache:
Craig T Nelson
Al Rockoff:
John Malkovich
Dr Sundesval:
Athol Fugard
Director:
Roland Joffe
Jon Swain:
Julian Sands
US Consul:
Spalding Gray
Dr MacEntire:
Bill Paterson
US Military Adviser:
Tom Bird
Producer:
David Puttnam
Composer:
Mike Oldfield
Director of photography:
Chris Menges

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