Still Photo from King-Father's film "La Joie de Vivre" (Joy of living) featuring Kong Sam Oeun and Sak Si Sbong (Photo: www.norodomsihanouk.info)Artists, Officials Push for Sihanouk Films to Keep Showing
Mony, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
15/05/2007
The appeal came after Sihanouk issued a notice on May 10 asking that his movies no longer be shown. He said recently some people showed his movies with the intention to criticize him.
Ministry of Information undersecretary Ea Pannasith, who is in charge of television affairs, said he still supported the former king's movies.
As a young prince and king, Sihanouk was renowned for his films, which he would screen at a guesthouse in Siem Reap, among other places. The films are capsules from Cambodia's heyday, when French influence and modern thought found purchase in a newly independent nation untroubled by war or genocide.
Original report from Phnom Penh
15/05/2007
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Government officials and various artists have urged the continued showing of films by former king Norodom Sihanouk, which he directed and produced prior to the fall of Cambodia to the Khmer Rouge and in the years after the regime's demise.The appeal came after Sihanouk issued a notice on May 10 asking that his movies no longer be shown. He said recently some people showed his movies with the intention to criticize him.
Ministry of Information undersecretary Ea Pannasith, who is in charge of television affairs, said he still supported the former king's movies.
As a young prince and king, Sihanouk was renowned for his films, which he would screen at a guesthouse in Siem Reap, among other places. The films are capsules from Cambodia's heyday, when French influence and modern thought found purchase in a newly independent nation untroubled by war or genocide.
