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Norodom Sihanouk Archival Collection

Series 7 :  Video and sound recordings

Sub-series F (F52-F59): Films by HM King Father Norodom Sihanouk

Please note Series and Call numbers for retrieval.

Call No.

Format

Original Title & Description

F-52

DVD

Khmer Rose-Marie – a film by Norodom Sihanouk – 2009

Original Title: Rose Marie Khmere
Subject: This film of Norodom Sihanouk was made in Cambodia in the province of Kampot. Sihanouk seems to have got the idea for this film from the film “Rose Marie” with Jeannette McDonald and Eddy Nelson, which was a “beautiful love story between a young lady (Rose Marie) and a Canadian mounted-police officer.
Date: 2009
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-53

DVD

Mayerling Khmer – a film by Norodom Sihanouk – 2009

Original Title: MAYERLING KHMER
Subject: This film of Norodom Sihanouk was inspired by the tragedy of the suicide of the heir to the Austrian Empire, Crown Prince Rudolph of Hapsburg, at the village of Mayerling, 37 Kilometres from Vienna, in January 1889, together with his lover, Baroness Marie Vetsera
Date: 2009
Director: Norodom Sihanouk
Language of film: Khmer – no subtitles
Copy or original: Copy (1 DVD)
Quality: Excellent
Editorial note: A brochure in French comes with the DVD

F-54

DVD

Antromak – a film by Norodom Sihanouk – 2009

Original Title: Antromak (Andromaque Khmere)
Original Title – short English translation: Andromaque
Subject: This film by Norodom Sihanouk is based on the tragedy of the same name by Racine (1667) who was inspired by a passage of the Iliad. It tells the story of Andromaque who captured by Pyrrhus, King of Epirus, believed that she could save her son’s (Astyanax) life only by marrying her vanquisher.
Date: April 2009
Director: Norodom Sihanouk
Language of film: Khmer
Copy or original: Copy (1 DVD)
Quality: Excellent
Editorial note: This adaptation by Norodom Sihanouk comprises a few changes in comparison with the original story. Thus Orest (Orestes), in the Cambodian version, does not go mad but Pirith (Pyrrhus) succeeds in killing him before he dies.

F-55

DVD

Philemon et Baucis Khmers – 2009 – a film by Norodom Sihanouk

Original Title – short English translation: Philemon and Baucis Khmers
Subject: This film of Norodom Sihanouk is based on a tragedy by Ovide but adapted to modern times in Cambodia.
Date:  July 2009
Director: Norodom Sihanouk
Language of film: Khmer
Copy or original: Copy (1 DVD)
Quality: Poor

F-56

DVD

Indrama – 2009 – a film by Norodom Sihanouk

Original Title: Indrama
Subject: A short film by Norodom Sihanouk and the collaboration of his daughter HRH Princess Norodom Buppha Devi, which tells the story of a Khmer Principality, and the conflicts that follow after the death of its monarch
Date:  2009
Director: Norodom Sihanouk
Language of film: Khmer
Copy or original: Copy (1 DVD)
Quality: The sound is unstable. Also after a few minutes the film quality changes and gets jammed.

F-57

DVD

Rose de Phnom Penh – 2005 – a film by Norodom Sihanouk

Original Title – short English translation: Rose of Phnom Penh
Subject: A film of music and dances of Cambodia
Date: February 2005
Director: Norodom Sihanouk
Language of film: No narration, musical background
Copy or original: Copy (1 DVD)
Quality: Excellent

F-58

DVD

Phnom Penh 2009 – a film by Norodom Sihanouk

Original Title: Phnom Penh 2009
Subject: Documentary about Phnom Penh city in 2009
Date: April 2009
Director: Norodom Sihanouk
Language of film: No narration, musical background
Copy or original: Copy (1 DVD)
Quality: Excellent

F-59

VHS

Video of the participation of the Indra Devi Dance Group in the film “Goodbye my Love” of Norodom Sihanouk –Paris-December 1988

Subject: Video made during the filming in Paris of scenes of the film “goodbye my Love” of Norodom Sihanouk
Date: December 1988
Director: Unknown
Language of film: No narration, musical background
Copy or original: Copy (1 VHS)
Quality: Good