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Sep 15, 2017 · First They Killed My Father: Directed by Angelina Jolie. With Sareum Srey Moch, Phoeung Kompheak, Sveng Socheata, Mun Kimhak. Cambodian author and human rights activist Loung Ung recounts the horrors she suffered as a child under the rule of the deadly Khmer Rouge.
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- Biography, Drama, History
- Angelina Jolie
- 2017-09-15
Sep 15, 2017 · Luong's story begins in relative peace, with the heroine and her bourgeois family, headed by a military police officer father ( Phoeung Kompheak ), in the capital, wondering what changes the end of the U.S. war will bring.
Actor: First They Killed My Father. Phoeung Kompheak is known for First They Killed My Father (2017), The Gate (2014) and P.O.V. (1988).
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Sep 14, 2017 · ‘First They Killed My Father,’ with Sareum Srey Moch, Phoeung Kompheak, Sveng Socheata. Directed by Angelina Jolie, from a screenplay by Jolie and Loung Ung. 136 minutes.
Sep 15, 2017 · Ung is one of seven children living in relative comfort in Phnom Penh; her father (played with extraordinary grace by Phoeung Kompheak) is a government official, and when the Khmer Rouge rebels...
- Angelina Jolie
Sep 14, 2017 · Angelina Jolie’s film—about the Khmer Rouge regime that killed one quarter of the population of Cambodia between the years of 1975 and 1979—is based on a memoir by human-rights activist Loung Ung,...
Sep 21, 2017 · Loung’s gentle, generous father (Phoeung Kompheak) is a government official, and that’s dangerous. The new order makes literacy, and even the act of thinking for oneself, a criminal offense.
