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EPLFC aka Ernakulam Public Library Film Club will be publicly screening Roland Joffe’s The Killing Fields on 3^rd January, 2010(Sunday) at 10 AM.

Plot

Sydney Schanberg is a New York Times journalist covering the civil war in Cambodia. Together with local representative Dith Pran, they cover some of the tragedy and madness of the war. When the American forces leave, Dith Pran sends his family with them, but stays behind himself to help Schanberg cover the event. As an American, Schanberg won’t have any trouble leaving the country, but the situation is different for Pran; he’s a local, and the Khmer Rouge are moving in.

The Killing Fields Trailer

Details for The Killing Fields

• Title: The Killing Fields
• Director: Roland Joffe
• Rating: 8.0
• Year: 1984
• Tagline: He was a reporter for the New York Times whose coverage of the Cambodian War would win him a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. But the friend who made it possible was half the world away with his life in great danger… This is the story of war and friendship, the anguish of a country and of one man’s will to live.
• Genre: Drama, History, War
• Color: Color

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