One Evening After the War

One Evening After the War
One Evening After the War

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Directed by Rithy Panh
Produced by Jacques Bidou
Written by Rithy Panh
Ève Deboise
Starring 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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Release date(s) France May 19, 1998
Running time 108 minutes
Country Cambodia/France
Language Khmer

One Evening After the War (French: Un soir apres la guerre, Khmer: រាត្រី​មួយ​ក្រោយ​សង្គ្រាម) 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

  1. ^ 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


v · d · eFilms 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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