Please note Series and Call numbers for retrieval.
Call No. |
Format |
Original Title & Description |
F-34 |
DVD |
An Unhappy Love Life – a film by Norodom Sihanouk – 2006
Original Title: Une malheureuse vie d’amoureuse
Subject: Once again, Norodom Sihanouk, inspired himself in a novel “Past Loves” by French writer Pierre Benoit, to create a tragic Khmer love story
Date: August 2006
Director: Norodom Sihanouk
Language of film: Khmer – no subtitles
Copy or original: Copy (1 DVD)
Quality: Excellent
Editorial note: A booklet in French and English comes with the DVD. |
F-35 |
DVD |
The Extraordinary Devotion of a Maiden – a film by Norodom Sihanouk - 2006
Original Title: L’Attachement singulier d’une pucelle
Subject: This film filmed completely in the Royal Palace of Phnom Penh tells the story of a rapidly ageing widower Prince and his affection for a young maiden.
Date: 2006
Director: Norodom Sihanouk
Language of film: Khmer with some excerpts in French
Copy or original: Copy (1 DVD)
Quality: Excellent
Editorial note: A booklet in French and English comes with the DVD. |
F-36 |
DVD |
Excuse me Madam, I am Gay! – a film by Norodom Sihanouk – 2007
Original Title: Excusez-moi, Madame, Je suis “Homo”
Subject: In this comedy, Norodom Sihanouk, tells the story of a gay man who is pursued by a wealthy widow.
Date: 2007
Director: Norodom Sihanouk
Language of film: Khmer-no subtitles
Copy or original: Copy (1 DVD)
Quality: Excellent
Editorial note: Norodom Sihanouk made this film at a time when some Cambodian politicians expressed contempt for gay people in Cambodia. A booklet in French and English comes with the DVD. |
F-37 |
DVD |
Who does not have a Mistress? – a film by Norodom Sihanouk - 2006
Original Title: Qui n’a pas de Maitresse?
Subject: In this film made in North Korea in March 2006, Norodom Sihanouk returns to the theme of acid attacks against the Mistresses of senior officials of the government and Army of an unnamed country. The film was inspired by events that occurred in Cambodia in 2004-2005.
Date: March 2006
Director: Norodom Sihanouk
Language of film: Khmer with brief excerpts in French
Copy or original: Copy (1 DVD)
Quality: Excellent
Editorial note: A booklet in French and English comes with the DVD. |
F-38 |
DVD |
Reborn – a film by Norodom Sihanouk – 2006
Original Title: Reborn
Subject: In 1952, HRH Princess Norodom Kantha Bopha, nicknamed “A-Mech”, the preferred daughter of King Norodom Sihanouk, died victim of a brutal leukaemia, aged only 4 years old. Upon his return to Cambodia from exile in China in the years 1990s, a charming young lady of the Cambodian upper class, visited Norodom Sihanouk and claimed that she was the reborn Princess Kantha Bopha. Based on these real events, Norodom Sihanouk wrote the scenario of this film which was made in North Korea in March 2006.
Date: March 2006
Director: Norodom Sihanouk
Language of film: Khmer – no subtitles
Copy or original: Copy (1 DVD)
Quality: Poor – Image deteriorates after a few minutes. Sound disappears.
Editorial note: A booklet in French and English comes with the DVD |
F-39 |
DVD |
Flamary & Atsouka – a film by Norodom Sihanouk – 2006
Original Title: Flamary & Atsouka
Subject: This melodrama was inspired by the novel “Flamarens” by the French writer Pierre Benoit. It was filmed in North Korea with North Korean actors.
Date: May 2006
Director: Norodom Sihanouk
Language of film: Korean- no subtitles
Format & System: DVD
Copy or original: Copy
Quality: Excellent
Editorial note: A booklet in French and English comes with the DVD. |
F-40 |
DVD |
A Castle in the Middle of the Forest – a film by Norodom Sihanouk – 2006
Original Title: Un Chateau Au Milieu de la Foret
Original Title – short English translation: A Castle in the Middle of the Forest
Subject: This film of Norodom Sihanouk is inspired in the novel “Boissiere” by the French writer Pierre Benoit. It tells the story of a corrupt Minister who built a Chateau for his Mistress. As their country is invaded the Army makes the Chateau its headquarters and the Mistress becomes the lover of the General commanding the Army.
Date: February-March 2006
Director: Norodom Sihanouk
Language of film: Khmer – no subtitles
Copy or original: Copy (1 DVD)
Quality: Reasonably good but there are some sound problems
Editorial note: A booklet in French and English comes with the DVD |
F-41 |
DVD |
Nokor Chas – a film by Norodom Sihanouk - 2006
Original Title: Nokor Chas
Subject: This film was inspired by the novel “Villeperdue” by the French writer Pierre Benoit. It tells the story of a Prince who has enlisted the help of UNESCO to restore the ruins of Angkor.
Date: March 2006
Director: Norodom Sihanouk
Language of film: Khmer – no subtitles
Copy or original: Copy (1 DVD)
Quality: Excellent |
F-42 |
DVD |
“For our King” – a film by Norodom Sihanouk – 2006
Original Title: Pour Notre Roi
Original Title – short English translation: For Our King
Subject: In this film, inspired by the novel “Pour Don Carlos” of the French writer Pierre Benoit, Norodom Sihanouk tells the story of some members of the Royal Family who died after the 18 March 1970 coup d’état which deposed Sihanouk as Head of State of Cambodia.
Date: May 2006
Director: Norodom Sihanouk
Language of film: Khmer – no subtitles
Copy or original: Copy (1 DVD)
Quality: Excellent |
F-43 |
DVD |
Four Wives are not such fun! – a comedy film by Norodom Sihanouk – 2006
Original Title: Avoir 4 Epouses ce n’est si gai que ca!
Original Title – short English translation: Four Wives are not such Fun!
Subject: A comedy-film by Norodom Sihanouk, telling the story of a man that married four different women. The film was made at a time when there was a resurgence of polygamy among government officials in Cambodia.
Date: June 2006
Director: Norodom Sihanouk
Language of film: Khmer – no subtitles
Format & System: DVD
Copy or original: Copy
Quality: Excellent |
F-44 |
DVD |
Countess Armance Chantrea – a film by Norodom Sihanouk – 2007
Original Title: Neak Moneang Armance Chantrea
Original Title – short English translation: Countess Armance Chantrea
Subject: This film is inspired by the novel “Lunegarde” by French writer Pierre Benoit. It tells the story of the wife a Prince, retired General in the Army of his country, whose wife had betrayed him with a foreign diplomat and was forced by the Prince to spend the rest of her life as a Nun in a monastery and her children forbidden to see her.
Date: September 2007
Director: Norodom Sihanouk
Language of film: Khmer – no subtitles
Copy or original: Copy (1 DVD)
Quality: Excellent |
F-45 |
DVD |
Basasethy – a film by Norodom Sihanouk – 2007
Original Title: Basasethy
Subject: This film was inspired by the Tragedy “Bajazet” of the French writer Jean Racine (1672). Before leaving for the war front, King Amoukreath orders his favourite concubine Roksan to organize the execution of the Sultan’s own brother Basasethy. Roksan warns Basasethy of the Sultan’s orders and promises him to save his life provided Basasethy organizes a revolt.
Date: November 2007
Director: Norodom Sihanouk
Language of film: Khmer – no subtitles
Copy or original: Copy (1 DVD)
Quality: Excellent |
F-46 |
DVD |
Viscountess Audone and Countess Mahene – a film by Norodom Sihanouk – 2007
Original Title: Neak Angk Ksatrei Audone & Neak Moneang Mahene
Subject: This film was inspired by the novel “Seigneur, J’ai Tout Prevu” of the French writer Pierre Benoit. It tells the story of Mahene, the lover of Viscount Layom, seduces the old but extremely rich Count Henryo in order to get part of his large fortune, the other part going to the Count’s daughter Audone.
Date: December 2007
Director: Norodom Sihanouk
Language of film: Khmer – no subtitles
Copy or original: Copy (1 DVD)
Quality: Excellent |
F-47 |
DVD |
Trees, Flowers and Royal Buildings – a documentary by Norodom Sihanouk – 2007
Original Title: Arbres, Fleurs, Batiments Royaux
Original Title – short English translation: Trees, Flowers and Buildings of the Royal Palace
Subject: A documentary film by Norodom Sihanouk about the Trees, Flowers and Buildings of the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh.
Date: July 2007
Director: Norodom Sihanouk
Language of film: No narration, only music.
Copy or original: Copy (1 DVD)
Quality: Excellent |
F-48 |
DVD |
Lon Nol, Lon Non, Lonnolians – a film by Norodom Sihanouk - 2005
Original Title: Lon Nol, Lon Non, Lonnoliens
Subject: A film inspired in real events which took place in Cambodia from 1970 to 1975
Date: April 1995
Director: Norodom Sihanouk
Language of film: Khmer – no subtitles
Copy or original: Copy (1 DVD)
Quality: Excellent
Editorial note: This film of Norodom Sihanouk was inspired by three events that took place during the “Khmer Republic” of Lon Nol (1970-1975). The first one concerned a conversation by Lon Nol with the former US Vice-President Spiro Agnew, during which Lon Nol told his visitor that there was a “dragon living under the basement of Watt Phnom (the famous sanctuary located in a hill in the centre of Phnom Penh). The second event was the so-called existence of a “sacred spade” that would prevent the Khmers Rouges from taking over the Cambodian capital and also the re-sale by Lon Nol’s army of medicines, arms and military equipment to the Khmers Rouges. The last event was the activities of Lon Nol’s brother, Colonel Lon Non, who managed to ruin a number of Sino-Khmer jewellers by making demands of precious jewels and money from them. Some were forced to migrate to Hong Kong. |
F-49 |
DVD |
Koh Antay– a film by Norodom Sihanouk – 2007
Original Title: Koh Antay
Subject: This film of Norodom Sihanouk was inspired by the novel “Erromango” by Pierre Benoit. It tells the story of a young lady forced by her mother to marry a wealthy older man that she does not love, instead of her true love a much younger man whom was her classmates at high school.
Date: 2007
Director: Norodom Sihanouk
Language of film: Khmer – no subtitles
Copy or original: Copy (1 DVD)
Quality: Excellent
Editorial note: A brochure in French and English comes with this DVD |
F-50 |
DVD |
Mitrida – a film by Norodom Sihanouk – 2008
Original Title: Mitrida
Original Title – short English translation: Mitrida
Subject: This film of Norodom Sihanouk was inspired by the tragedy Mithridate by the famous French writer Jean Racine. It tells the story of a tragic love affair between an old King, two Princes, sons of the King and a beautiful Princess from Greece. It has been adapted to a Royal Court in the time of the Kings of Angkor but the tragedy remains untouched.
Date: 2008
Director: Norodom Sihanouk
Language of film: Khmer – no subtitles
Copy or original: Copy (1 DVD)
Quality: Excellent
Editorial note: A brochure in French and English comes with the DVD |
F-51 |
DVD |
Religion & Love – a film by Norodom Sihanouk – 2005
Original Title: Religion & Amour
Original Title – short English translation: Religion & Love
Subject: This film of Norodom Sihanouk was inspired by a Khmer song that became a hit in Cambodia and among Cambodians abroad. It tells the story of a Buddhist monk that left his monastery to marry a beautiful woman, only to find out that she was unfaithful with a wealthy businessman. The monk, full of guilt, returns to the monastery and promises Buddha to never abandon his life as monk again. The film was made at the Royal Residence in Beijing, China.
Date: February 2005
Director: Norodom Sihanouk
Language of film: Khmer – no subtitles
Copy or original: Copy (4 DVD)
Quality: Excellent
Editorial note: A booklet in French and English comes with the DVD. |