S21 The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine
by Rithy Panh
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Actor: Houy Him, Khieu 'Poev' Ches, Mak Thim, Ta Him, Yeay CheuDirector: Rithy Panh
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 101 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-05-24
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: FIRST RUN FEATURES
Movie Reviews of S21 The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine
Movie Review: Organized terror
Summary: 5 Stars
In this emotional and gripping movie Rithy Panh confronts former killers and the few survivors (among the thousands of inmates) of the slaughtering in the horrible S-21 prison in Phnom Penh during the Red Khmer regime in Kampuchea.
The guards show the place were people were clubbed to death, not shot. The sound of gun shots would have created panic among the group of prisoners waiting to be killed.
The inmates confess blatantly that under untenable torture they told their interrogators everything those wanted to hear and denounced as traitors even the most innocent of their compatriots.
The movie creates a nearly unbearable emotional climate by showing the extreme excesses of a Marxist ideology going mad, killing even intentionally children and babies. A one party State was installed where the top forced a terror regime on the entire population.
This movie is a must see for all those interested in the history and the nature of mankind.
Summary of S21 The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine
{Winner! International Human Rights Award, Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema 2004}{Winner! Fran?ois Chalais Award, Cannes Film Festival 2003}
{Winner! Gold Plaque, Best Documentary, Chicago International Film Festival 2003}
{Winner! Best Documentary, European Film Awards 2003}
In 1975-79, almost two million Cambodians lost their lives to murder and famine when the Khmer Rouge forced the urban population into the countryside to fulfill their ideal of an agrarian utopia. The notorious detention center code-named 'S21' was the schoolhouse-turned prison where 17,000 men, women and children were tortured, interrogated and executed, their "crimes" meticulously documented to justify their execution.
In this award-winning documentary and astonishing historical document, Rithy Panh and his team undertook a three year investigation involving not only the survivors, but also their former torturers. They persuaded both groups to return to the actual site of what was formerly S21, now converted into a Genocide Museum, to face their past. One survivor, Vann Nath confronts his captors, some of whom were as young as 12 years old when they committed their atrocities.
Human Rights Watch, widely regarded as one of the most influential and important human rights organizations in the world, and First Run Features, which for 25 years has distributed films that confront human rights issues, formed a collaboration to bring awareness to films that shed light on human rights abuses throughout the world. S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine is the first title in the HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH SELECTS DVD series.
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