By Mean Veasna, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
02 January 2008
A film depicting the capture of Phnom Penh by the Khmer Rogue began shooting Tuesday morning, with actors dressed as Lon Nol government soldiers lining a street to welcome the incoming communists.
The film is the apparent work of former king Norodom Sihanouk, who was famous for his movie-making before he was famous as the leader of the country that fell to the Khmer communists.
Sisowath Sieng Dy, who is a member of the Royal Cabinet and plays the lead female role in the film, told VOA Khmer the film is the former monarch's first film about the Khmer Rouge and its rise to power.
Filming began Tuesday, she said, with the Khmer Rouge shooting at the Independence Monument, and with Lon Nol soldiers at first greeting the communists as they marched down Russian Boulevard, which leads from the main airport into the capital.
The Lon Nol regime fell to the Khmer Rouge on April 17, 1975. Soldiers lined up in the early morning to greet the communist insurgents that had defeated them. The Lon Nol soldiers were immediately executed.
The making of a Khmer Rouge film by former king Sihanouk, who at one time aligned himself with the communists following his ouster in a US-backed coup, comes as war crimes trials are set to begin this year.
Khmer Rouge tribunal officials have said in the past the king could be called as a witness at the trials.
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KI-Media note: Sieng Dy was a Cambodian singer in the 60s, she became a "Neak Moneang" (i.e. wife of a royal family member) after marrying one member of the Sisowath royal family.
The film is the apparent work of former king Norodom Sihanouk, who was famous for his movie-making before he was famous as the leader of the country that fell to the Khmer communists.
Sisowath Sieng Dy, who is a member of the Royal Cabinet and plays the lead female role in the film, told VOA Khmer the film is the former monarch's first film about the Khmer Rouge and its rise to power.
Filming began Tuesday, she said, with the Khmer Rouge shooting at the Independence Monument, and with Lon Nol soldiers at first greeting the communists as they marched down Russian Boulevard, which leads from the main airport into the capital.
The Lon Nol regime fell to the Khmer Rouge on April 17, 1975. Soldiers lined up in the early morning to greet the communist insurgents that had defeated them. The Lon Nol soldiers were immediately executed.
The making of a Khmer Rouge film by former king Sihanouk, who at one time aligned himself with the communists following his ouster in a US-backed coup, comes as war crimes trials are set to begin this year.
Khmer Rouge tribunal officials have said in the past the king could be called as a witness at the trials.
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KI-Media note: Sieng Dy was a Cambodian singer in the 60s, she became a "Neak Moneang" (i.e. wife of a royal family member) after marrying one member of the Sisowath royal family.
19 comments:
It better be a 35-mm film, or else it wont be good.
Knowing full well that Sihanouk has deep animosity against Lon Nol & the rest of the republicans, I'd assume Sihanouk is going to display some anti-Lonnolian sentiments in the film.
It's going to be interesting how this film comes about. Personally, I can care less about films that Sihanouk produces because I dislike him for certain reasons, BUT because he's producing a film about the Khmer Rouge capture of Phnom Penh in April 1975, I'd like to see how remotely accurate and how bias he portrays the events.
That Chinese 's money, Hun Xen 's money, or the money from slaving us?
ah Sihanouk must go to the jail by the KR tribunal because ah sihanouk is the big killer of about 1.7 millions of Khmer people
He wants to be remembered as Father of National Reconciliation.
He is a fake budhist who dies for a revenge.
It's not good for King to have bad feeling about his subject. He needs toget over that. Lon Nol is Khmers. Who deos he think, he represents? North Korea??!!!!!or China????!!!!!!
SIHANOUK NEVER WANT TO FORGET THIS APRIL 17 HIS AND KHMER ROUGE GLORIOUS DAY HE HAS DEEP HATRED INSIDE OF HIM TOWARD LON NOL AND THE INNOCENT PEOPLE WHO CHHOSE TO BE ON LON NOL SIDE. YOU CAN HEAR EVERYWORDS HE SAYS OR WRITE IS ABOUT THE REVENGE HE HAS SUCCEDED OVER LON NOL'S REGIME... HE DOESN'T CARE ABOUT 2 MILLIONS CAMBODIAN DEATH AT THE TIME... LON NOL SIRIK MATAK IN TAM THEY ALL GONE LONG TIME BUT THIS QUEER STILL BEAR THE HATRED HE IS NOT A BUDDHIST. LORD BUDDHA ALWAYS TEACH BUDDHIST TO CARE FORGIVE AND NO REVENGE... THIS DOG IS ANIMAL...
Sihanouk had screwed his own aunt in real life he should make a movie about this incest story ...
Sihanouk broke it, Sihanouk must fix it!
Get Sihanouk to back out of the not-so-secret deal he made with Hun Sen.
Get Sihanouk to denounce the Viet's vision of annexation of Cambodia.
Get Sihanouk back to be the father of the Nation by befriending with the West and the outside world, now that Vietnam has been re-united/unified.
Get Sihanouk back to be what he once was but with less or none of the Vietnamese and/or the Chinese.
After all, Sihanouk had been flipfopping all his life politically and after all, what is that humongous Embassy near Watt Phnom built for?
That's, in my honest opinion, how we can solve our beloved motherland's problem otherwise Khmer will never ever rid of the Viet's new and systematic yoke of colonialism.
No one political party will never ever be able to save Cambodia without Sihanouk whether it be united or otherwise!!!
Passer-by
Sihanouk knows he's going to die very soon...his health is really deteriorating. And as a result, he wants to make sure his legacy will be remembered by his fellow Cambodians and the rest of the nation in the future.
It's obvious that Lon Nol, Sirik Matak, Im Tam, Cheng Heng, etc have all passed away, but deep inside Sihanouk, his vengeance for having him toppled in 1970 runs wild in his veins. To this day, he still bickers and recounts what the republicans did to him. It haunts him and it annoys him like shit. It's something that he can never ever get over with and with this film, it's his chance to portray the Khmer Republic and the followers of the republicans in the most undeserving and non-respectable way.
Ah chke kantuy kvearn ...... neuv the kvearn mouy chivith .....
Ah sdech moha kbot cheath ......
I don't know why Former K.N Sihanouk like Khmer Rouge than Lon Nol ? Does Former K.N.Sihanouk is Vietnames Blood?
9:47 AM,
Sihanouk sided with the Khmer Rouge before April 1975 because he wanted to sought revenge on Lon Nol, Im Tam, Sirik Matak, Cheng Heng and others who overthrew him from power, abolished the monarchy and created the Khmer Republic. Ever since then, he's always held a grudge and hatred for the Lonnolians.
Lets just say he allowed his own personal vendetta to f*** things up REALLY REALLY REALLY bad throughout the late 1960's and onwards.
This is sick for King Ta Sihanouk to film this movie.
This movie has no benefit for Cambodian monarchy and Cambodian nation at all.
This film will be serving only to Hun Sen regime, to Vietnam aggressor, and to the endless revenge from those KR victims to the same Khmer race.
KR is ended, and this regime will never be happened again, but what we are worrying now is the installed government by Vietnam is still in power.
King Ta Sihanouk is only an absolute lackey or political tool to Hun Sen.
He is acting like has no brain at all!
KY
Sihanouk, a Viet blower, continues to do exactly what he did in the 60's,70's,90's and 2000's.
This idiot will die as an idiot never learned and changed.
Called the King Idiot? You idiot!
Sihanouk is rather be an imbecile than an idiot for all of his idiotic followers to worship.
we should make a film on Sihanouk from
In the spring of 1965, he made a deal with China and North Vietnam to allow the presence of permanent North Vietnamese bases in eastern Cambodia and to allow military supplies from China to reach Vietnam by Cambodian ports. Cambodia and Cambodian individuals were compensated by Chinese purchases of the Cambodian rice crop by China at inflated prices. He also at this time made any number of speeches calling the triumph of Communism in Southeast Asia inevitable and suggesting Maoist ideas were worthy of emulation. In 1966 and 1967, Sihanouk unleashed a wave of political repression that drove many on the left out of mainstream politics. His policy of friendship with China collapsed due to the extreme attitudes in China at the peak of the Cultural Revolution. The combination of political repression and problems with China made his balancing act impossible to sustain. He had alienated the left, allowed the North Vietnamese to establish bases within Cambodia and staked everything on China's good will. On March 18, 1970, while he was travelling out of the country, Lon Nol, the prime minister, convened the National Assembly which voted to depose Sihanouk as head of state and give emergency powers to Lon Nol. Prince Sisowath Sirik Matak, a royal prince who, in 1941, had been passed over by the French government in favor of his cousin Norodom Sihanouk's leadership role, retained his post as Deputy Prime Minister. Prince Sihanouk fled to Beijing and began to support the Khmer Rouge in their struggle to overthrow the Lon Nol government in Phnom Penh. When the Khmer Republic fell to the Khmer Rouge in April 1975, Prince Sihanouk became the symbolic head of state of the new régime while Pol Pot remained in power. The next year, on April 4, 1976, the Khmer Rouge forced Sihanouk out of office again and into political retirement. During the Vietnamese invasion, he was sent to New York to speak against Vietnam before the United Nations. After his speech, he sought refuge in China and in North Korea.
The Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia in December 1978 ousted the Khmer Rouge. Although claiming to be wary of the Khmer Rouge, Prince Sihanouk was more than willing to again join forces with them in order to provide a united front against the Vietnamese. In 1982, he became president of the Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea (CGDK), which consisted of his own Funcinpec party, Son Sann's KPNLF, and the Khmer Rouge. The Vietnamese withdrew in 1989, leaving behind a pro-Vietnamese government under ex-Khmer Rouge cadre Hun Sen to run the People's Republic of Kampuchea (PRK).
[edit] Restoration
Peace negotiations between the CGDK and the PRK commenced shortly thereafter and continued until 1991 when all sides agreed to a comprehensive settlement which they signed in Paris. Prince Sihanouk returned once more to Cambodia on November 14, 1991 after thirteen years in exile.
In 1993, Sihanouk once again became king of Cambodia. During the restoration, however, he suffered from ill health and traveled repeatedly to Beijing for medical treatment.
Sihanouk's leisure interests include music (he has composed songs in Khmer, French, and English) and film. He has become a prodigious filmmaker over the years, directing many movies and orchestrating musical compositions. He became one of the first heads of state in the region to have a personal website, which has proven a cult hit. It draws more than a thousand visitors a day, which constitutes a substantial portion of his nation's Internet users. Royal statements are posted there daily.
King Sihanouk went into self-imposed exile in January 2004, taking up residence in Pyongyang, North Korea and later in Beijing, China. Citing reasons of ill health, he announced his abdication of the throne on October 7, 2004. The constitution of Cambodia made no provision for such a move. Chea Sim, the President of the Senate assumed the title of acting Head of State (a title he has held many times before), until the throne council met on October 14 and appointed Norodom Sihamoni, one of Sihanouk's sons, as the new king.
[edit] Family
In his lifetime, King Norodom Sihanouk reportedly has had several wives and concubines, producing at least fourteen children in a period of eleven years. According to Time magazine (30 June 1956), however, his only legal wives have been Princess Samdech Norleak (married 1955, "not married but legalized") and Paule Monique Izzi (married 1955, not married but legalized), who is a granddaughter of HRH Prince Norodom Duongchak of Cambodia and the younger daughter of Pomme Peang and her second husband, Jean-François Izzi, a banker. A profile of Sihanouk in The New York Times (4 June 1993, page A8) stated that the king met Monique Izzi in 1951, when he awarded her a prize in a beauty pageant.
According to Royal Ark's genealogy of the Cambodian royal family, however, Sihanouk has been married (False) seven times.
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Hisconsorts being:[1]
(1) Neak Moneang Phat Kanhol (1920-1969, a member of the Royal Cambodian Ballet; married 1942, later divorced)
HRH Samdech Preah Ream Bupha Devi (1943-)
HRH Samdech Preah Krom Norodom Ranariddh (1944-)
(2) HRH Princess Sisowath Pongsanmoni (1929-1974; married 1942, divorced 1951)
HRH Samdech Borom Reamea Norodom Yuvaneath (1943-)
HRH Samdech Norodom Racvivong Sihanouk (1944-1973)
Samdech Preah Mohesarra Norodom Chakrapong (1945-)
HRH Samdech Princess Norodom Sorya Roeungsay (1947-1976)
HRH Princess Norodom Kantha Bopha (1948-1952)
HRH Samdech Norodom Khemanourak Sihanouk (1949-1975)
HRH Samdech Princess Norodom Botum Bopha (1951-1976)
(3) Anak Munang Thach (married 1943)
(4) HRH Princess Sisowath Monikessan (née HRH Princess Sisowath Naralaksha Munikesara, 1929-1946; married 1944)
HRH Samdech Norodom Naradipo (1946-1976)
(5) HRH Princess Samdech Preah Reach Kanitha Norodom Norleak (née Princess Devisa Naralakshmi, born 1927; married 1946 and "more formally" on 4 March 1955)
(6) Mam Manivan Phanivong (née Mam Munivarni Barni Varman, 1934-1975; married 1949)
HRH Princess Norodom Socheatha Sujata (1953-1975)
HRH Samdech Preah Anoch Norodom Arunrasmy (1955-)
(7) HM Queen Norodom Monineath Sihanouk (née Paule Monique Izzi, born 18 June 1936; married 12 April 1952 and "more formally" on 5 March 1955)
HM King Norodom Sihamoni (1953-)
HRH Samdech Norodom Narindrapong (1954-2003)
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"" until now, SIHANOUK never has had the royal wedding. when a women was attractive and beautiful, he asked his lackey to bring her to the royal palace.
If the relation lasted for a while and his concubines got children, he gave her a title as a royal concubine such as: MAM, NEAK MONEANG, KHUN etc...
- NEAK MONEANG Phat Kanhol, a member of the Royal Ballet (from 1942...).
- the princess SISOWATH Pongsanmoni (his AUNT) who was the daughter of HIS GRAND FATHER king SISOWATH Monivong, and the HALF SISTER of his MOTHER queen SISOWATH KOSSOMAK.( he was incestuous!)(from 1942...).
- Anak Munang Thach (from 1943...)
- The princess SISOWATH Monikessan ( his AUNT too) who was the DAUGHTER of the HIS GRAND FATHER King SISOWATH Monivong, and the HALF SISTER of his MOTHER Queen SISOWATH Kossomak. (he was again incestuous, isn't he? ( from 1944..
- Princess NORODOM NORLEAK, his cousin who is the niece of his mother QUEEN KOSSOMAK. When her and her husband had been introduced to SIHANOUK after their marriage; for him it was a love at first sight and the end justifies the means!
*In 1946 He stated relation with her .
*In 1955 he legalized her
as the first spouse ( Monique Izzi as the second wife in 1955 too.)
- MAM Manivan Phanivong (a Laotian)
that it was a love at first sight for him again, when he made a visit to Lao country in 1949.
- The last one, Monique Izzi became his last concubine in 1952 and legalized as a second wife at the same time than princess Norodom Norleak."
Holoywood must make a movie about him to show the world so that he and his royal family can be proud of him: laquey yuon, traitor, communist king, bloodthirsty, incestuous, lecher, selfish, .
this guy name Xihanuk should move to hollywood a long time ago. Intead he stay in cambodia and kill alot of Khmers poeple.
three thing for this DOG.
1) Chinese ass kisser.
2) Vietcong slave.
3) Selfish MOTHER.....er.
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