Please note Series and Call numbers for retrieval.
Call No. |
Format |
Original Title & Description |
F-1 |
VHS/DVD |
The Little Prince – a film by Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia – 1967
Original Title: Le Petit Prince
Subject: a fiction film portraying the strong bonds linking a young Prince and his people
Date: 1967
Director: Norodom Sihanouk
Language of film: Khmer with French subtitles
Copy or original: Copy (2 VHS, 1 DVD)
Quality: Best available copy
Editorial note: This was the fourth fiction film of Norodom Sihanouk, in which he goes back to the 18th century in Angkor, ruled by a Regent (Anupheap Ksatra) while his nephew (Prachea Komar or The Little Prince) reaches adulthood and can succeed his late father the King. |
F-2 |
VHS/DVD |
Tragic Fate – a film by Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia – 1969
Original Title – short English translation: Tragic Fate
Subject: Love story
Date: 1969
Director: Norodom Sihanouk
Language of film: Korean with English subtitles
Copy or original: Copy (1 VHS, 1 DVD)
Quality: Poor quality. The DVD copy made by ASRC has also the same problem.
Description: It is a love story between a poor fisherman and his beautiful cousin, a peasant girl, who is also loved by the Crown Prince of the Kingdom.
Editorial note: Film of Norodom Sihanouk, made in 1969 in Cambodia in colour 35m/m. Because of the coup d’etat in early 1970, the film sound was not completed in Cambodia and was done in 1980 in North Korea in Korean with English subtitles. |
F-3 |
DVD/VHS |
Apsara – a film by Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia – 1966
Original Title: Apsara
Original Title – short English translation: APSARA – a film by Norodom Sihanouk
Subject: This film tells the story of an unmarried, middle aged, rich and powerful Cambodian Army General (Rithi) who has as a mistress a widow (Rattana) but who falls deeply in love with a much younger star (Kantha Devi) of the Royal Ballet.
Date: 1966
Director: Norodom Sihanouk
Language of film: French
Copy or original: Copy (3 DVD, 2 VHS)
Quality: Best available copy
Editorial note: Several members of the Royal Family, including two children of Sihanouk himself, a former Commander in Chief of the Army and other senior public servants participated in this film which Sihanouk has described as a film whose “principal star is Cambodia”. |
F-4 |
VHS |
Rose de Bokor – a film by Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia – 1969
Original Title: Rose de Bokor
Original Title – short English translation: Rose of Bokor
Subject: This was the eight film made by Prince Norodom Sihanouk in Cambodia in 1969. The film, based on historical events, tells the story of Japan’s invasion and occupation of Cambodia in 1945 and the love story between a Cambodian-French girl and a Japanese colonel.
Date: 1969
Director: Norodom Sihanouk
Language of film: Korean with English subtitles
Copy or original: Copy (4 VHS)
Quality: Very Good
Description: This film shot in Cambodia in 1969, was the last film made by Prince Norodom Sihanouk before the coup d’etat of March 1970. Because of the coup, the sound of the film could not be completed in Cambodia, thus Norodom Sihanouk arranged for the sound to be added to the film in Korean language with English subtitles in the D.P.R. of Korea in 1979. |
F-5 |
VHS |
The Temple of the Emerald Buddha (Silver Pagoda)- a documentary by Norodom Sihanouk – 1995
Original Title: La Pagoda du Bouddha d’Emeraude a Phnom Penh
Original Title – short English translation: The Temple of the Emerald Buddha (The Silver Pagoda) in Phnom Penh
Subject: Documentary directed and presented by Norodom Sihanouk about the Temple of the Emerald Buddha, commonly known as the Silver Pagoda, in the enceinte of the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh.
Date: October 1995
Director: Norodom Sihanouk
Language of film: Khmer & French
Copy or original: Copy (1 VHS)
Quality: Very Good
Description: Norodom Sihanouk directs and narrates this documentary about the Temple of the Emerald Buddha which holds an ancient statue of an Emerald Buddha, said to have come from Burma. The temple is commonly known as the “Silver Pagoda” because its floor is made of silver tiles. |
F-6 |
VHS |
The Gardens of the Royal Palace – a documentary by Norodom Sihanouk – 1998
Original Title: Les Jardins du Palais Royal de Phnom Penh
Original Title – short English translation: The Gardens of the Royal Palace of Phnom Penh
Subject: Documentary film by Norodom Sihanouk on the different Gardens of the Royal Palace of Phnom Penh
Date: January 1998
Director: Norodom Sihanouk
Language of film: Un-narrated
Copy or original: Copy (2 VHS)
Quality: Very Good
Description: Un-narrated documentary film by King Norodom Sihanouk on the Royal Gardens of the Royal palace of Phnom Penh. |
F-7 |
VHS |
Compilation of excerpts from films by Norodom Sihanouk
Original Title: Films extraits: Rose de Bokor, Crepuscule, Ombre sur Angkor, La Foret Enchantee.
Subject: Brief excerpts from four films made by Prince Norodom Sihanouk in the 1960s in Cambodia accompanied by music also composed by the Prince.
Date: January 1998
Director: Ieu Pannakar (of the compilation only)
Language of film: Khmer with English subtitles
Copy or original: Copy (3 VHS)
Quality: Good
Description: Brief excerpts from the films “The Enchanted Forest” (1967), “Twilight” (1968), “Rose of Bokor” (1969) and “Shadow over Angkor” (1969). |
F-8 |
VHS/DVD |
Shadow over Angkor – a film by Norodom Sihanouk – 1968
Original Title: Ombre sur Angkor
Original Title – short English translation: Shadow over Angkor
Subject: This film is based on actual events that took place in Cambodia in 1959, when a Cambodian General, with the help of the CIA and two neighbouring countries tried to secede two provinces (Siemreap-Angkor and Kompong Thom) from the country.
Date: 1968
Director: Norodom Sihanouk
Language of film: Khmer with French subtitles
Copy or original: Copy (3 VHS, 1 DVD)
Quality: Best available copy
Editorial note: In 1959, General Chhuon Mchulpich, a Cambodian army general with the assistance of the CIA and the intelligence services of Thailand and Vietnam tried to secede the provinces of Siemreap-Angkor and Kompong Thom from Cambodia. |
F-9 |
VHS/DVD |
Twilight – a film by Norodom Sihanouk – 1969
Original Title: Crepuscule
Original Title – short English translation: Twilight
Subject: A film by Norodom Sihanouk made in Cambodia in 1968. This film presents the tragic love triangle of Prince Adit of Cambodia, Maharani Maya of India and the Prince’s young Khmer nurse, Sopheap.
Date: 1969
Director: Norodom Sihanouk
Language of film: Khmer with English subtitles
Copy or original: Copy (2 VHS, 1 DVD)
Quality: Best copy available
Description: This film by Prince Norodom Sihanouk is based on the book “Angkor” by the famous French archaeologist Bernard Groslier in which he described the beauty of the temples of Angkor. Sihanouk created a triangular love story which has as background the temples of Angkor, with an Indian heroine (Maharani Maya), role played in the film by his wife Princess Monique, who falls in love with a Khmer prince (Prince Adit). |
F-10 |
VHS |
The Enchanted Forest – a film by Norodom Sihanouk – 1967
Original Title: La Foret Enchantee
Subject: a fairy-tale trying to portrait an image of Cambodia as it was in the 1960s
Date: 1967
Director: Norodom Sihanouk
Language of film: Khmer
Copy or original: Copy (2 VHS)
Quality: Best available copy
Editorial note: This was the second fictional film made by Prince Norodom Sihanouk in Cambodia in 1966 and tells the story of a group of people of the upper classes of Phnom Penh, who go on a hunting expedition during which they are surprised by a storm and forced to take refuge in a cave where they are met by a Khmer princess, who guides them to a palace deep in the forest where a kind Prince, the King of the Forest, resides, who welcomes them and extends to them a charming hospitality. |
F-11 |
VHS |
Good Bye my Love! – a film by Norodom Sihanouk – 1989
Original Title: Adieu Mon Amour!
Subject: This film dedicated to the close friendship between the D.P.R. of (North) Korea and Cambodia tells the story of a Cambodian cultural delegation, led by a Cambodian Prince and his wife a famous clothes designer, visiting Korea and of a triangular love relationship happening within the Cambodian delegation
Date: 1989
Director: Norodom Sihanouk
Language of film: Korean with English subtitles
Copy or original: Copy (2 VHS)
Quality: Best available copy
Editorial note: This was the second film made by Norodom Sihanouk in the D.P.R. of (North) Korea. A Cambodian delegation led by Prince Soryavong (Roland Eng) and his wife Rattana (Princess Diyat) a famous clothes designer, led a Cambodian cultural delegation on a visit to Pyongyang and other cities of North Korea, where they present a show of dances and also some of the fashion creations of Rattana. The latter is suspicious of her husband’s relationship with his secretary Helene, who is secretly in love with the Prince. While in Korea the Prince and his secretary become lovers. |
F-12 |
VHS |
My Village at Sunset – a film by Norodom Sihanouk – 1992
Original Title: Mon Village au Coucher du Soleil
Original Title – short English translation: My Village at Sunset
Subject: In this 1992 film by Norodom Sihanouk, he drew attention to the horrific consequences of landmines which was one of the “heritages” left in his country, after many years of civil war and foreign invasion.
Date: July-August 1992
Director: Norodom Sihanouk
Language of film: Khmer with English subtitles
Copy or original: Copy (2 VHS)
Quality: Best available copy |