Jamie_Lambo wrote: ↑Sat Aug 19, 2017 6:08 am anyone have a link to the trailer?

mauser765 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 19, 2017 6:19 am

Jamie_Lambo wrote: ↑Sat Aug 19, 2017 6:08 am anyone have a link to the trailer?

We know you're just looking for more pics of the two in the front row...

CEOCambodiaNews wrote: ↑Fri Aug 18, 2017 9:24 pm The premiere has shown the three very important features: Identities, Core Values, and Definitions of Cambodian culture. It's also reflects society and the historical evolution of the Cambodian people. The diversity of the film will spread the moral teachings to national and international audiences.

The diversity of the film will spread the moral teachings to national and international audiences.

John Bingham wrote: ↑Sat Aug 19, 2017 11:20 pm

CEOCambodiaNews wrote: ↑Fri Aug 18, 2017 9:24 pm The premiere has shown the three very important features: Identities, Core Values, and Definitions of Cambodian culture. It's also reflects society and the historical evolution of the Cambodian people. The diversity of the film will spread the moral teachings to national and international audiences.

I'd love to know what this film is actually about, because that description is very vague. Isn't there at least a synopsis of it, because I can't find any reference to it online myself.

The tale of Sdech Kan

In 1508, King Srey Sukonthor dreamed that a fire-breathing dragon drove him from his palace and wreaked havoc on the kingdom. Not long afterwards, he had a second dream in which two dragons circled the head of one of his military commanders, Kan. Kan was a member of the temple-slave class and his sister was a part of Sukonthor’s harem. Hearing portents of doom from all corners of the kingdom and his fortune-tellers, who said he would be overthrown by a man born in the year of the dragon like Kan, Sukonthor ordered Kan killed. After overhearing the plan, his sister warned Kan, who fled east and raised an army. He marched back in 1512 and took power for himself after Sukonthor was struck down by one of his aides, and took the royal name Srey Chetha. During his reign he introduced the first Cambodian currency, the sloeung, a gold coin inscribed with a scaled dragon, and ruled benevolently; however, after only four years, Sokunthor’s brother Chan Reachea returned from Ayutthaya with Thai troops and started a war that lasted nearly 10 years. In 1525, Kan was captured and beheaded by Reachea, who took the throne.

The tale

From the year 1504 a king named Srey Sukonthor ruled the relatively new Kingdom of Cambodia. 1512 saw the end of his rule, when an enthusiastic rebellion successfully overthrew the crown and saw its leader, Sdach Korn, take the throne. History seems to have forgotten a great deal of information about King Korn, but this person labels him as a jealous peasant whose sister was wed to King Sukonthor. Korn grew up, built an army, rebelled, and ultimately ended the 94-year Chaktomuk era of Cambodia. The displaced King Sukonthor was killed, and his younger brother Chan Reachea, rightful heir to the throne, fled to Thailand (which was then Siam, with Sukhothai being the capital – our photos of the ancient city are in this post).

During his time in Siam, Chan Reachea became adept at hunting elephants. In 1516 he managed to convince the King of Siam (Ramathibodi II) that a 5-metre high elephant lived in the eastern forests, and so the king excitedly gave Reachea 5000 armies, 100 elephants, food, and swords to capture it.

Reachea and his army followed the imaginary trail to the Cambodian border, and then sent word to Ramathisbodi asking for more food. Unfortunately, the king had come to his senses and realised that there was actually no such thing as a giant elephant. Likely embarrassed, he ordered his armies to seize Reachea.

Quick as a flash, Chan Reachea fled over the border and managed to gather 10,000 armies to march on Pursat – the very town where I sit writing this post, 500-years later.

Battles were won and lost, but at one point it looked like certain death for the rightful king – his remaining army was surrounded.

Enter Klang Moeung. Klang was no warrior, but he did have a strong connection with the spirit world. Some accounts refer to him as a general, while others refer to him as more of a shaman. Whatever he was, he proved adept at sneaking through the enemy lines to learn of their battle plans, and he quickly realised that nothing Reachea could do would free him from the predicament he found himself in. Perhaps though, Klang could help.

After digging a deep hole, Klang filled it with poison-tipped spears, and proceeded to dive in, killing himself instantly. Seeing this noble deed, Reachea’s step-sister Nakmaneang Kev jumped in after him, killing herself too. Two children, said to belong to the pair by all accounts, also jumped in and died.

Of course, that is not how the story of Klang ends. From there, he (and we suppose Nakamaneang and the kids as well) commanded an army of ghosts which plagued King Korn’s forces with diseases, eventually helping to win back the throne for Chan Reachea in 1525, who then, to keep things confusing, changed his name to King Barom Reachea III.