An early Cambodian "Cannes"-Winner: NINE CIRCLES OF HELL (1988)

The place is Phnom Penh, 1979, immediately following the fall of Pol Pot. A grainy film shows a Czechoslovakian doctor walking through the debris around the deserted Central Market. Amid piles of shoes is a grandfather clock, evidently left standing in the street since the city had been evacuated four years earlier. He winds up the derelict artifact of a lost time and a chime rings out.
Viewers would be excused for believing they were watching genuine footage of Phnom Penh days after the city’s liberation. In fact, the Czechoslovakian-Cambodian production was made after the Vietnamese had occupied the city – but only just.

Forgotten for decades, the feature film NINE CIRCLES OF HELL (1988, 105 min) directed by Milan Muchna has finally been subtitled in English. Back then, it was the first Cambodian feature film screened at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival.
Khmer with English subs. Free Entrance.

You may also like the following events from META HOUSE:

• This Saturday, 17th May, 07:30 pm, Frida "in her own words": The new documentary about the Mexican star artist in Phnom Penh
• This Sunday, 18th May, 07:30 pm, "In the Absence of the Sun": Indonesian Feature Film, set in Jakarta in Phnom Penh
• Next Tuesday, 20th May, 06:00 pm, Looking at Angkor: Student Art Exhibition Opening in Phnom Penh

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