A journalist is trapped in Cambodia during Pol Pot's bloody Year Zero cleansing campaign.A journalist is trapped in Cambodia during Pol Pot's bloody Year Zero cleansing campaign.A journalist is trapped in Cambodia during Pol Pot's bloody Year Zero cleansing campaign.
- Won 3 Oscars
- 28 wins & 24 nominations total
Haing S. Ngor
- Dith Pran
- (as Dr. Haing S Ngor)
- Director
- Writer
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Did you know
- TriviaIn real life, Haing S. Ngor's wife died under the Khmer Rouge regime, haemorrhaging during childbirth (the baby also died). She knew that she couldn't contact her husband as doctors were all being murdered by the regime so by keeping her silence and dying of internal bleeding, she effectively saved his life.
- GoofsWhen Schanberg and Dith visit the city of Neak Leung (which had just been accidentally hit by a B-52 strike) a group of Cambodian National Army operatives rush into town in a jeep. The song "Band on the Run" by Paul McCartney and Wings is blaring, supposedly from a radio on the jeep. While the scene was to have taken place in May, 1973, the song "Band on the Run" was not released until 1974.
- Quotes
[last lines - at their reunion, with warm smiles]
Sydney Schanberg: You forgive me?
Dith Pran: Nothing to forgive, Sydney. Nothing.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Omnibus: The Killing Fields (1984)
- SoundtracksImagine
Written by John Lennon (uncredited)
Performed by John Lennon & The The Plastic Ono Band (uncredited)
Courtesy of EMI Records Limited
Featured review
I saw this film a while back and just saw it again on TV. If you are interested in seeing a great, tense drama this is a good start. Honest and unapologetic directing from Roland Joffe and fine performances from Sam Waterston & John Malkovich (plus nicely played small parts by Craig T. Nelson & Spalding Gray.) Above all of them, however, is Haing S. Ngor as Dith Pran, the Cambodian journalist assisting the New York Times reporter played by Waterston during the conflicts in Cambodia around the time of the Vietnam war. This was Ngor's first film and had no previous acting experience. Quite a performance from Ngor, earning a well deserved Academy Award. Interesting note, Ngor himself led a very similar life to his character. Wonderfully touching film, you should see it.
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- Also known as
- The Killing Fields - Schreiendes Land
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- Budget
- $14,400,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $34,700,291
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $32,181
- Nov 4, 1984
- Gross worldwide
- $34,700,291
- Runtime2 hours 21 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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