Into the Heart of Darkness: Extracts from a Film Diary

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• 1. Arriving at Phnom Penh
• 2. Filming the reconstruction
• 3. Interviewing Pol Pot's brother
• 4. On location
• 5. S-21 interrogation centre
• 6. The killing fields
• 7. Pol Pot's grave
• 8. Brother Number Two
• 9. Find out more
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Arriving at Phnom Penh

We arrived at Phnom Penh airport to be met by our Cambodian line producer and a British Embassy official, who helped us through customs. Thankfully we managed to leave the airport with all our equipment.

'A huge casino has now been built close to the site.'

Our hotel is a smart new block on the river Tonle Sap, only a stone's throw from the place where Pol Pot and the other leaders of the revolution lived in their special compound. A huge casino has now been built close to the site.

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Published: 2005-11-07