One Evening After the War
7.2 /10 1 Votes
Director Rithy Panh Music director Marc Marder Duration Language Khmer | 7/10 IMDb Genre Drama, War Screenplay Rithy Panh, Eve Deboise Country Cambodia/France | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date May 19, 1998 (France) Writer Eve Deboise, Rithy Panh Initial release December 16, 1998 (France) Cast Chea Lyda Chan (Srey Poeuv), Ratha Keo (Maly), Sra N'Gath Kheav (Le Meut), Peng Phan (Srey Poeuv's Mother), Narith Roeun (Savannah), Mol Sovannak (Phâl)Similar movies Movies about Cambodia, Dramas | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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.
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The film premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.
Plot
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.
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Release
One Evening After the War made its world premiere in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. It opened for general release in France on December 16, 1998.
References
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