Apsara

by H.M. Norodom Sihanouk

Cambodia - 1965

Sunday, June 9th • 6PM
At Chaktomuk

Feature Film - 135mn

Color

Khmer

Screenplay H.M. Norodom Sihanouk

Cast Norodom Buppha Devi, Samdech Nhiek Tioulong, Sisowath Chivanmonirak, Norodom Narindrapong

Format Mono - 1.37:1

Genre Drama

First ralease 1965

Synopsis The rich and powerful General Rithi, who has for mistress a young widow, Rattana, falls madly in love - but for good reason - of a ravishing star of the Royal Ballet Corps, Kantha Devi, whose very pure strokes reminiscent of celestial dancers, the “Apsara” adorning the bas-reliefs of Angkor. The mother of our ballerina, an ambitious widow, agrees on the marriage without consulting even her daughter. But she has a young and very dear companion of childhood, lieutenant Phâly, to whom she promised that “nothing would separate them”. Regrettably, she does not want disobey to her mother and she marries general Rithi.

Selective filmography of H.M. Norodom Sihanouk
(1922 - 2012)

1965 - Apsara

1967 - Le petit prince du peuple

1968 - Ombre sur Angkor

1969 - Rose de Bokor

1969 - Crépuscule

1969 - Tragique destin

1987 – La cite mystérieuse

1988 – Adieu mon amour

1993 – Revoir Angkor et mourir

1994 – La fleur Champa de Battambang

1995 – Les derniers jours du Colonel Savath
(short film)

2005 – Le Cid Khmer (short film)