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Saloth Sar (19 May 1925 – 15 April 1998), better known as Pol Pot (Khmer: ប៉ុល ពត), was a Cambodian Maoist revolutionary who led the Khmer Rouge from 1963 until his death in 1998. From 1963 to 1981, he served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea. From 1976 to 1979, he also served as the prime minister of Democratic Kampuchea. Pol Pot became leader of Cambodia on April 17, 1975. During his time in power he imposed agrarian socialism, forcing urban dwellers to relocate to the countryside to work in collective farms and forced labor projects. The combined effects of forced labor, malnutrition, poor medical care, and executions resulted in the deaths of approximately 21% of the Cambodian population. In all, an estimated 1.7 to 2.5 million people (out of a population of slightly over 8 million) died as a result of the policies of his three-year premiership.
In 1979, after the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia, Pol Pot fled to the jungles of southwest Cambodia, and the Khmer Rouge government collapsed. From 1979 to 1997, he and a remnant of the old Khmer Rouge operated near the border of Cambodia and Thailand, where they clung to power, with nominal United Nations recognition as the rightful government of Cambodia. Pol Pot died in 1998 while under house arrest by the Ta Mok faction of the Khmer Rouge. Since his death, rumours that he was poisoned have persisted.
Actors: Massi Furlan (actor), Joshua Fredric Smith (actor), Brendan Moriarty (director), Brendan Moriarty (producer), Henry Bronson (producer), Scott Maguire (actor), Jack Kalian (actor), Patrick J. Moriarty (producer), Nhem Sokun (actor), Chiet Ukham (actor), Yim H. Li (producer), Yim Jhuin (writer),
Genres: Biography, Thriller,Actors: James Kyson (actor), Keone Young (actor), Lee Wong (actor), Lock Lee (actor), Casey Storm (costume designer), Akiko Iwakawa-Grieve (editor), Talmage Cooley (writer), Talmage Cooley (director), Talmage Cooley (producer), Peter Leung (actor), Anthony Sperduti (writer), Josh Kirsch (composer), Ken Sih (actor), Murphy Tan (actor), Keith Lomenza (composer),
Plot: In 1985, Pol Pot is on a slow retreat; he's in Cambodia's Battembang Region. Four men hide in a darkened room. Pol Pot enters with his deputy, security chief, and a general. The four men in hiding, without conviction, say "Surprise." A banner says "Happy birthday." A cake and candles appear; the four sing "Happy Birthday" without spirit. The intern is given a piece of cake to taste for poison. Then, all are served a slice. A few presents appear: the deputy unwraps a neck support pillow, a book about management, and a decorative stand reading, "Don't ask me I just work here." The leader wants all to get back to work, but an aide brings one more gift: a puppy. A good gift?
Keywords: birthday-party, dictator, pol-pot, surprise-partyActors: Anders Bramsen (producer), Anders Bramsen (actor), Anders Bramsen (editor), Anders Bramsen (director), Anders Bramsen (writer), Anne-Marie Ubbe (actress), Jes Holtsø (actor), Jes Holtsø (composer), Anders Krogsgaard (actor), Al Fleming (editor), Lea Kelmann (actress), Helenna Havermanns (actress), Anki Lund (actress), Donald L. Smith (actor), Peter Rubiano Schjer (actor),
Plot: Using an often surprising manic and fractured style, the film "Liden Tid" (Time Is But Brief), is exploring the visionary possibilities of systematic disorientation of the viewer's senses. Yet, the filmmaker skillfully manages to take the audience through a gut wrenching, nightmarishly absurd tale of a young man, whose life has gotten out of control. The contradiction of relentless desire vs. ultimate destruction taking over the main character's life is summed up in scenes, where a strangely detached American philosopher is spewing dead-on truths about life and death. With a reckless, somewhat sinister distance and dark humor, the director (Anders Bramsen) gives us an unposed picture of a soul, yearning for freedom, and raises the question of what's left when humans are incapable of, or unwilling to live life on life's terms.
Genres: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Short,A return to the land.
Primitive way of life.
Internet is outlawed.
Sort the wheat from the chaff, shrink the population,
dig your hole in the ground.
To keep you is no benefit.
To destroy you is no loss.
Shrink the population, dig your hole in the ground.
Sort the wheat from the chaff, shrink the population,
dig your hole in the ground.
Mustn't waste the bullets.
Kill with other methods.
Bury them together.
Purify the nation.
Stamp out useless learning.
Facilitate the system.