Two decades after forging an unlikely alliance in Pol Pot's Cambodia, a French ethnologist and a former Khmer Rouge official meet again after the latter is arrested for crimes against humanity.
Acting
Kompheak's Duch: terrifyingly ordinary, devastatingly precise.
Direction
Wargnier lets silence do the violence.
Director
Régis Wargnier
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on François Bizot's memoir; he was the only Westerner to survive S-21 prison. Duch personally guaranteed his release in 1971.
The real Duch converted to Christianity and expressed remorse at his 2009 trial—though many survivors found his contrition theatrical and self-serving, which the film subtly interrogates.
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