As director Roland Joffé emphasises in his commentary, this isn't so much a war movie as a love story - the love between Sydney Schanberg, award-winning NY journalist, and his Cambodian guide and interpreter, Dith Pran. In the film's first half, stunningly shot by Chris Menges, we watch Cambodia topple into agony and chaos thanks to the cynical US bombing campaign. Forced to leave as the Khmer Rouge trundles into town and unable to take Pran with him, Schanberg spends the next few years struggling to get his friend out, while Pran endures Pol Pot's brutal and murderous regime - his two million-killing 'Year Zero'.
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