One Evening After the War

One Evening After the War French Un soir apres la guerre, Khmer is a 1998 Cambodian drama film, directed and cowritten by Rithy Panh. Panh directed this neorealist FrenchCambodian social drama set amid Southeast Asian poverty and the Cambodian underworld.

After the end of the Cambodian Civil War, people in Cambodia struggled in their return to their normal lives. Among them is a kickboxer Savannah Narith Roeun. A survivor of the war, who lost most of his family to the horrors of the Khmer Rouge, he lives with his uncle in Phnom Penh. Savannah begins a romance with a 19yearold bar girl, Srey Poeuv Chea Lyda Chan. She is humiliated by her debts to the bars owner, and is forced to keep working. Savannah wants to help Srey clear her debt, so he teams up with an exsoldier and plans a crime that could net him some money.One Evening After the War made its world premiere in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. It opened for general release in France on December 16, 1998. ........

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