The Killing Fields
Movie
Type
1984
Year
2h 22m
Runtime
★ 7.5
Rating
Drama / History / War
Genre
The Killing Fields tells the real-life story of a friendship between two journalists, an American and a Cambodian, during the bloody Khmer Rouge takeover of Cambodia in 1975, which led to the death of 2-3 million Cambodians during the next four years, until Pol Pot's regime was toppled by the intervening Vietnamese in 1979.
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Cast
Sam Waterston
Sydney Schanberg
Haing S. Ngor
Dith Pran
Craig T. Nelson
Major Reeves, Military Attache
John Malkovich
Alan 'Al' Rockoff, Photographer
Athol Fugard
Dr. Sundesval
Julian Sands
Jon Swain
Spalding Gray
United States consul
Bill Paterson
Dr. MacEntire
Graham Kennedy
Dougal
Katherine Krapum Chey
Ser Moeum: Dith Pran's wife
Oliver Pierpaoli
Titony: Dith Pran's son
Edward Entero Chey
Sarun, Sydney's Driver