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Feature Film - 117mn
Color
French with Khmer and English subtitles
ScreenplayMarcel Camus, Jacques Viot
CinematographyRaymond Lemoigne
MusicMaurice Jarre
CastMeas Sam El, Nary Hem, Nop Nem, Saksi Sbong, Bopha Devi
Format35mm
GenreDrama
First Release1962
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SynopsisSok, a young monk, left his monastery to live the life of everyone. Taking one day the defense of an orphan, Tith, abused by Khem, Sok meets the bird of paradise, who comes to predict the young and beautiful dancer Dara, a wonderful future. The bird of paradise, who dies through the fault of Khem, allows Dara and Sok to meet.
AboutMarcel Camus, mostly known as the author of Orfeu Negro, which won the Palme d’or at Cannes Film Festival in 1959, has played an essential role in the emerging Cambodian film industry, when he came in Cambodia to shoot L’oiseau de paradis in 1962. Adapting the successful formula of Orfeu Negro - amateur actors in a love story mixing several tradionnal ingredients : dance, rituals, official celebrations, beliefs… - the film starred actors who became the first stars of the local film industry in the 1960s, such as Nop Nem and Saksi Sbong. Young Yvon Hem, who worked on the film as a production assistant, and whose sister Nary Hem plays the main role of the film, became one of the most important filmmakers in Cambodia in the 1960s.
Selective filmography of Marcel Camus (1912-1982)
1959 - Orfeu Negro
1965 - Le chant du monde
1967 - Vivre la nuit
1970 - Le mur de l’Atlantique
With the courtesy ofGaumont
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