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The Killing Fields

  • Director:  Roland Joffé
  • DOP: Chris Menges
  • Year: 1984
  • Genre:  Biography, Drama, History
  • Runtime: 141 minutes

A journalist is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody 'Year Zero' cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million 'undesirable' civilians.

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Cast and Crew

Producers

  • David Puttnam
  • Jake Eberts
  • Iain Smith

Writers

  • Bruce Robinson

Cast

  • Sam Waterston
  • Haing S. Ngor
  • John Malkovich
  • Julian Sands

Awards

  • Winner 3 Academy Awards
  • plus 4 nominations
  • Winner 8 BAFTA Awards
  • plus 5 nominations
  • Winner of another 15 awards plus 12 nominations