Director

Rithy Panh

Directing

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Directed movies: 18Directed series: 0All crew credits: 27

TMDB ID: 129896

IMDb ID: nm0659454

Known for: Directing

Born: April 18, 1964

Age: 61

Place of birth: Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1989 - 2025

Years active: 37

Average TMDB rating: 6.58

Wikidata: Q1683688

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Biography

Rithy Panh (Khmer: ប៉ាន់ រិទ្ធី) is a French-Cambodian director, film producer, screenwriter, editor, actor and writer. During the years 1975 and following in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge regime, he lost his parents and part of his family, and young Rithy witnessed the worst atrocities. He survived in 1979 where he managed to reach the Mairut camp in Thailand then arrived in France in 1980. Rithy Panh is the author of numerous works which all have as a backdrop a Cambodia which is having difficulty dressing its pieces of theater and Where Rithy demonstrates his talent for immortalizing slices of life in which the protagonists give the impression of engaging while forgetting the camera. His work is imbued with the work of memory and the pain of survivors of the Pol Pot regime. He tries to rediscover Cambodian culture through cinema.