| Rice People | |
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| Directed by | Rithy Panh |
| Screenplay by | Ève Deboise Rithy Panh |
| Based on | No Harvest But a Thorn by Shahnon Ahmad |
| Produced by | Jacques Bidou Pierre-Alain Meier |
| Starring | Peng Phan Mom Soth Chhim Naline |
| Cinematography | Jacques Bouquin |
| Edited by | Andrée Davanture Marie-Christine Rougerie |
| Music by | Jean-Claude Brisson Marc Marder |
| Distributed by | Facets Video |
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Running time | 125 minutes |
| Country | Cambodia |
| Language | Khmer |
Rice People (Khmer: អ្នកស្រែ, romanized: 'nâk Srê [neak srae]) is a 1994 Cambodian drama film directed and co-written by Rithy Panh. Adapted from the 1966 novel Ranjau Sepanjang Jalan (No Harvest But a Thorn), by Malaysian author Shahnon Ahmad, which is set in the Malaysian state of Kedah, Rice People is the story of a rural family in post-Khmer Rouge Cambodia, struggling to bring in a single season's rice crop. It was filmed in the Cambodian village of Kamreang, in the Kien Svay and Boeung Thom areas of Kandal Province near Phnom Penh, on the banks of the Mekong River. The cast features both professional and non-professional actors.
The film premiered in the main competition at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival and was submitted to the 67th Academy Awards, the first time a Cambodian film had been submitted as a possible nominee for Best Foreign Language Film.[1]
- ^ Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences