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Cambodia: Cut off by Khmer Rouge, film scene revives at refugees return
Just before the communist Khmer Rouge marched into the capital in 1975, Tea Lim Koun, the director of the classic Cambodian film “The Snake Man” (1972), escaped bloodshed by fleeing to Canada. Over the next four years, the genocidal regime executed most of Phnom Penh’s remaining directors and actors, wiping out Cambodia’s vibrant filmmaking scene.
By Geoffrey Cain
The Christian Science Monitor
Dec 16, 2009