Enemies of the People

Item: Enemies of the People
Rating: 5
Author: Paul Dale

Paul Dale
12 January 2011

Horrifying but redemptive documentary of the Khymer Rouge’s 1970s genocide in Cambodia

(15) 93min

Thet Sambath and Rob Lemkin’s horrifying but remarkably redemptive documentary revisits the architects of the Khymer Rouge’s 1970s genocide of the Cambodian people and somehow gets them to open up about the bloodbath and madness of those years. Powerful, important and totally unforgettable.

Filmhouse, Edinburgh, Tue 18 & Wed 19 Jan.

Enemies of the People

2009
UK/Cambodia
15

Directed by: Thet Sambath, Rob Lemkin
Written by: Thet Sambath, Rob Lemkin

Sambath and Lemkin's horrifying but remarkably redemptive documentary revisits the architects of the Khmer Rouge's 1970s genocide of the Cambodian people and somehow gets them to open up about the bloodbath and madness of those years. Powerful, important and totally unforgettable.