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‘Pol Pot Dancing’: Cambodia’s Dictator Tried To Wipe Out Classical Dance, But His Foster Mom Saved It – Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival
'Pol Pot Dancing,' about the Cambodian dictator's effort to wipe out Khmer classical dance, is premiering at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival.
In one of the most compelling films to hold its world premiere at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival, archive footage shows an apparently amiable man dressed in black sitting for an interview with a Yugoslav journalist. The man is Pol Pot, the Cambodian dictator then in the middle of his four-year genocidal reign of terror atop his country, a period in which a quarter of the Cambodia’s population perished. The director says he hopes “to see the reactions of an ordinary Cambodian audience because still nowadays, this connection of Pol Pot to the dance and his upbringing close to the Royal Palace, that’s something that not many people are aware of.”
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