1975, THE NIGHTMARE BEGINS

A bloody civil war

Synopsis

On April 17, 1975, Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, is invaded by cohorts of gaunt, haggard teenagers dressed all in black and heavily armed. They form the Communists army, dubbed “Khmer Rouge” by King Norodom Sihanouk a few years earlier.

They immediately begin emptying the city of its inhabitants, marking the start of the Cambodian genocide that will claim almost 2 million lives between 1975 and 1979.

This film tells the story of the first days of a tragedy that shattered so many individual destinies.