Dush, Master of the forges of Hell
Realizador Rithy Panh
Países France
Duração 103 min
Sinopse
Between 1975 & 1979, the Khmer Rouge regime caused the death of some 1.8 million people, representing one-quarter of the population of Cambodia. Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, was in charge at M13, a Khmer Rouge-controlled prison, for four years before being appointed by the Angkar (A faceless entity which reigned over the destiny of an entire people) to the S21 center in Phnom Penh. In 2009, Duch became the first leader of the Khmer Rouge organization to be brought to an international criminal justice court. Duch reveals here how he considers that he fully carried out his mission, and the reasons which led him to command M13 and S21. Rithy Panh records his words, without any trimmings, in the isolation of a face-to-face encounter. At the same time, he sets it into perspective with archives and eye-witness accounts of survivors. As the narrative unfolds, the infernal machine of a humanity destruction system implacably emerges, through a manic description of its mechanisms.
Between 1975 & 1979, the Khmer Rouge regime caused the death of some 1.8 million people, representing one-quarter of the population of Cambodia. Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, was in charge at M13, a Khmer Rouge-controlled prison, for four years before being appointed by the Angkar (A faceless entity which reigned over the destiny of an entire people) to the S21 center in Phnom Penh. In 2009, Duch became the first leader of the Khmer Rouge organization to be brought to an international criminal justice court. Duch reveals here how he considers that he fully carried out his mission, and the reasons which led him to command M13 and S21. Rithy Panh records his words, without any trimmings, in the isolation of a face-to-face encounter. At the same time, he sets it into perspective with archives and eye-witness accounts of survivors. As the narrative unfolds, the infernal machine of a humanity destruction system implacably emerges, through a manic description of its mechanisms.