One Evening After the War
Synopsis
Rithy Panh is the same age as Savannah, his film’s main character. Like him, he endured the Pol Pot regime as a child and many of his family were exterminated. Savannah, though deeply scarred, is bursting with vitality and boundless energy. Srey Poeuv wants to die, thinking she will never live down the humiliation of what she has become. “War drives people mad and shatters every kind of solidarity,” Rithy Panh reminds us. In this utterly fragile environment, he tells the story of a passion that leads the seeker of life to his death, and the seeker of death to live on with the memory of her love.
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Director (1)
Actors (4)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : JBA Production
- Foreign production companies : Thelma Film AG, Compagnie Méditerranéenne de Cinéma (CMC) , Direction du cinéma au Cambodge
- Film exports/foreign sales : Playtime
- French distribution : Cara M.
Full credits (9)
- Executive Producer : Jacques Bidou
- Screenwriters : Ève Deboise, Rithy Panh
- Director of Photography : Christophe Pollock
- Music Composer : Marc Marder
- Editor : Marie-Christine Rougerie
- Sound recordists : Eric Vaucher, Gérard Lamps
- Production managers : Pierre Wallon, Marianne Dumoulin
- Press Attachés (film) : Vanessa Jerrom, Karine Ménard
- Production Designer : Chamnaul Nhean
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : Belgium, Switzerland, Cambodia, France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
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Selections (4)
Cairo - International Film Festival
Egypt, 1998
Out of Competition
About
"I produced Rithy’s first documentary, ‘Site II’, and also his first feature, ‘Rice People’, so our partnership goes back a long way. The first time I met Rithy, what struck me most was the tremendous strength he emanates, the story he has to tell. ‘One Evening After the War’ is an uncompromising film that tells about the irreversible violence inflicted on Cambodia in the course of a cruel and interminable war. The survivors are trying now to rebuild the country and, above all, their own lives." (Jacques Bidou, Producer)
