Angelina Jolie will direct a film about the tragedy of Cambodia

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

Angelina Jolie is known not only for her films, but also for her active work as a UN representative. The star regularly visits refugee camps and makes calls to prevent violence. Now Jolie begins work on a project that will combine two areas of her activities at once.

As part of her collaboration with Netflix, Angelina will be filming a film based on the memoir of Cambodian writer and activist Lung Ung, They First Killed My Father: Memories of Cambodia's Daughter.

Work on the script has already been completed, and it is known that one of the producers of the film will be the Cambodian director Riti Pan, whose film "Gone Image" about the genocide of 1975-1978 was nominated for an Oscar. It will also be reported that Jolie's adopted son Maddox (Maddox) will be involved in the filming of the tape, writes Variety. As you know, the boy was born in Cambodia.

The premiere of the film is scheduled for the end of next year. The creators also plan to present the tape at one of the international A-class film festivals.

“Angelina and I met in 2001 in Cambodia, and she immediately endeared me to her. Over the following years, we became close friends, and now it is an honor for me to entrust her with the history of my family,”Lung Ung admitted.

The writer was five years old when the Khmer Rouge regime came to power in Cambodia in 1975. Over the next four years, more than 3.3 million Cambodians died, went missing, and the Ung family was evicted from Phnom Penh. The girl's parents died, her six siblings were sent to labor camps, and she herself was trained as a child soldier in an orphan camp.