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Filmmaker Looks Back on Career Before Khmer Rouge Takeover –Part 4


Filmmaker Looks Back on Career Before Khmer Rouge Takeover –Part 4
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During the time the Khmer Rouge was in power, from April 17, 1975, to Jan. 7, 1979, more than 1.7 million Cambodians perished. The Khmer Rouge especially targeted intellectuals and artists for execution, as they sought to create an agrarian ideal. In an exclusive interview with VOA Khmer's Poch Reasey, Tea Lim Koun discusses his filmmaking in the 1960s and 1970s and what it meant to leave it behind.

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