Format:
DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials
Title:
The killing fields [videorecording] / Warner Bros. Pictures ; Goldcrest and International Film Investors present ; an Enigma production ; screenplay by Bruce Robinson ; produced by David Puttnam ; directed by Roland Joffé.
Publisher, Date:
Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video , [2001]
Description:
1 videodisc (141 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
digital optical
video file DVD video region 1
Summary:
Dith Pran is an aide, translator and friend of foreign journalists who are covering the war in Cambodia. When the Khmer Rouge take power he manages to save his journalist friends from execution, but he is eventually exiled to the labor camps in Cambodia's countryside, where he endures four years of starvation, torture and war before escaping to Thailand.
Target Audience Note:
Rated R.
Subjects:
Dith Pran, 1942-2008 -- Drama.
Schanberg, Sydney H. (Sydney Hillel), 1934- -- Drama.
Schanberg, Sydney H. (Sydney Hillel), 1934- -- Film adaptations.
Dith Pran, 1942-2008.
Schanberg, Sydney H. (Sydney Hillel), 1934-
Cambodia -- History -- 1975-1979 -- Drama.
Genre:
War films.
Film adaptations.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Films for the hearing impaired.
Other Author:
Robinson, Bruce, 1946- screenwriter.
Puttnam, David, 1941- film producer.
Joffé, Roland, 1945- film director.
Waterston, Sam, actor.
Ngor, Haing, actor.
Malkovich, John, actor.
Sands, Julian, actor.
Nelson, Craig T., actor.
Gray, Spalding, 1941-2004, actor.
Paterson, Bill, 1945- actor.
Fugard, Athol, actor.
Kennedy, Graham, 1934- actor.
Menges, Chris, 1940- cinematographer.
Walker, Roy, 1931- production designer.
Clark, James, 1931- film editor.
Oldfield, Mike, 1953- composer (expression)
Motion picture adaptation on (work): Schanberg, Sydney H. (Sydney Hillel), 1934- Death and life of Dith Pran.
Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ), production company.
Goldcrest Films International, production company, presenter.
International Film Investors (Firm), production company, presenter.
Enigma (Firm), production company.
Warner Home Video (Firm), film distributor, production company.
Other Title:
Killing fields (Motion picture)
Notes:
Originally released as motion picture in 1984.
Based on the novel: The death and life of Dith Pran / by Sydney Schanberg.
Special features: cast & crew; commentary by director Roland Joffé; Dr. Haing S. Ngor [biography]; awards; production notes; theatrical trailer.
Production designed by Roy Walker ; director of photography, Chris Menges ; editor, Jim Clark ; associate producer, Iain Smith ; original music composed by Mike Oldfield.
Sam Waterston (Sydney Schanberg), Dr. Haing S. Ngor (Dith Pran), John Malkovich (Al Rockoff), Julian Sands (Jon Swain), Craig T. Nelson (Military Attache), Spalding Gray (U.S. Consul), Bill Paterson (Dr. MacEntire), Athol Fugard (Dr. Sundesval), Graham Kennedy (Dougal).
DVD; Region 1; widescreen format; Dolby surround stereo; Dual-layer.
In English with optional subtitles in English or French; closed captioned in English for the hearing impaired.
Academy Awards (1984): Best cinematography, Best film editing, Best supporting actor (Ngor).
ISBN:
0790749424
9780790749426
Publisher or Distributor Number:
11419
Other Number:
46453398
System Availability:
4
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
4
Control Number:
1433980
Call Number:
K
Course Reserves:
0
# Local items in:
4
# System items in:
4
Medium:
[videorecording]