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Red Wedding (2012)

Name: Red Wedding
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2015-10-08T14:29:39+02:00

Documentary | 58 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 58 minuten

Country: Cambodia / France

Directed by: Guillaume Suon

IMDb score: 8,6 (19)

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Red Wedding plot

Precise figures are not available, but it is assumed that the reign of terror of the Khmer Rouge (1975-1979) killed at least 1.7 million Cambodians. The remote place where 48-year-old Sochan Pen now grows rice was once a killing field. She says that partly decomposed bodies are still being found and that the villagers fear that the ghosts of the deceased are around. Sochan was one of thousands of young women forced into marriage to a Khmer Rouge soldier in a regime-imposed push for population growth. Sochan's husband forced himself on her with brute force. Sochan, then sixteen, managed to escape from him, but was left with profound trauma from the experience. After a long silence, she decides to file a complaint with the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, in the hope that the regime will be formally held responsible for the suffering that has overshadowed her life.