‘Meeting With Pol Pot’: The Danger of Talking With a Dictator

A film about a journalist’s disappearance is a thinly disguised documentary of Pol Pot’s genocide of the Cambodian people.

Lise Delbo (Irène Jacob) interviewing Camarade Sung (Bunhok Lim). Journalists are in severe danger while investigating the Cambodian genocide, in "Meeting Wth Pol Pot." Strand Releasing

NR | 1h 52m | Drama | 2024

Malcolm Caldwell could be considered the Walter Duranty of Cambodia. In much the same way Duranty covered up Stalin’s genocidal policies targeting Ukrainians (known as the Holodomor) in his New York Times reports, Caldwell notoriously sanitized the Khmer Rouge’s mass murder of its people.