- One Evening After the War
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One Evening After the War 
Film posterDirected by Rithy Panh Produced by Jacques Bidou Written by Rithy Panh
Ève DeboiseStarring Chea Lyda Chan Music by Marc Marder Cinematography Christophe Pollock Editing by Marie-Christine Rougerie Distributed by Compagnie Méditerranéenne de Cinéma
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May 19, 1998Running time 108 minutes Country Cambodia/France Language Khmer One Evening After the War (French: Un soir apres la guerre, Khmer: រាត្រីមួយក្រោយសង្គ្រាម) is a 1998 Cambodian drama film, directed and co-written by Rithy Panh. Panh directed this neo-realist French-Cambodian social drama set amid Southeast Asian poverty and the Cambodian underworld.
The film premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.[1]
Contents
Plot
Srey Poeuv is portrayed by Chea Lyda Chan.
After the end of the Cambodian Civil War, people in Cambodia struggled in their return to their normal lives. Among them is a kickboxer Savannah (Narith Roeun). A survivor of the war, who lost most of his family to the horrors of the Khmer Rouge, he lives with his uncle in Phnom Penh. Savannah begins a romance with a 19-year-old bar girl, Srey Poeuv (Chea Lyda Chan). She is humiliated by her debts to the bar's owner, and is forced to keep working. Savannah wants to help Srey clear her debt, so he teams up with an ex-soldier and plans a crime that could net him some money.
Cast
- Chea Lyda Chan as Srey Poeuv
- Narith Roeun as Savannah
- Peng Phan as Srey Poeuv's mother
- Ratha Keo as Maly
- Srangath Kheav as Mute child
- Mol Sovannak as Phal
Release
One Evening After the War made its world premiere in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.[1] It opened for general release in France on December 16, 1998.
References
- ^ a b "Les Artistes du Théâtre Brûlé". Cannes Film Festival archives. Archived from the original on 2007-09-29. http://web.archive.org/web/20070929095605/http://www.festival-cannes.fr/index.php/en/archives/artist/13982. Retrieved 2007-07-18.
External links
- Un soir apres la guerre at the Internet Movie Database
- One Evening After the War at AllRovi
Films of Rithy Panh Site 2 (1989) • Cambodge, entre guerre et paix (1991) • Rice People (1994) • Bophana: A Cambodian Tragedy (1996) • One Evening After the War (1998) • The Land of the Wandering Souls (2000) • Que la barque se brise, que la jonque s'entrouvre (2001) • S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (2003) • The People of Angkor (2003) • The Burnt Theatre (2005) • Le papier ne peut pas envelopper la braise (2007) • Un barrage contre le Pacifique (2008)
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Categories:- Cambodian films
- French films
- Khmer-language films
- 1998 films
- 1990s drama films
- Gangster films
- Films directed by Rithy Panh
- 1990s drama film stubs
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