The Gate

Two decades after forging an unlikely alliance in Pol Pot's Cambodia, a French ethnologist and a former Khmer Rouge official meet again after the latter is arrested for crimes against humanity.

Cast

Raphaël Personnaz

as Bizot

Phoeung Kompheak

as Duch

Olivier Gourmet

Thanet Thorn

as Neang

Boren Chhith

as Lay

Rathana Soth

as Phuong

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