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The film is based on Ung's eponymous memoir. Set in 1975, the film depicts 5-year-old Loung, who is forced to train as a child soldier while her siblings are sent to labor camps during the Khmer Rouge regime.
Sep 15, 2017 · Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. Angelina Jolie's "First They Killed My Father" is far and away her best work as a director: a rare film about a national tragedy told through the eyes and mind of a child, and as fine a war movie as has ever been made. Adapted by Jolie and co-writer Loung Ung from Ung's memoir about her family's ...
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.
- Angelina Jolie
- 2 min
Sep 12, 2017 · 12 September 2017. By Caryn James,Features correspondent. Netflix. The actress ‘has had a high-profile, uneven record as a director’ – but her latest film is ‘stunning’, writes Caryn James. The...
Overview. The book is a first-person account, as seen through the eyes of a child, of the rise of the Communist Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s, its enforced mass relocation of the urban population to the countryside to do manual labour (leading to massive levels of fatality), and the regime's eventual collapse. The blurb for the book reads:
- Loung Ung
- 2000
Summaries. Cambodian author and human rights activist Loung Ung recounts the horrors she suffered as a child under the rule of the deadly Khmer Rouge. In the 1970's, a middle-class Cambodian girl sees her family's lives turning upside-down when the Khmer Rouge invades Cambodia.
First They Killed My Father is a deeply human study of the Cambodian genocide and the brave survival of one little girl. Angelina Jolie has adapted the film from Loung Ung's memoir and made it into a remarkable child's eye view of the constant ravages and savages of war.
