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October 14, 2022 7:03 PM

Three Films By King Norodom Sihanouk. 'The Little Prince'/ព្រះប្រជាកុមារ (1967) 'Apsara'/ អប្សរា (1966) 'The Lake of Happiness' 'The Nine Lives of Norodom Sihanouk'

Filmography.

Norodom Sihanouk Archival Collection

'Norodom Sihanouk, King, Film maker'

'Cambodia: Lights . . . Camera . . . Sihanouk"
Dec. 06, 1968. Time

posted by clavdivs (6 comments total)

inspired by flapjax at midnite' brilliant post on Cambodian music.
posted by clavdivs at 7:18 PM on October 14, 2022

Nice, this is my jam.
posted by Literaryhero at 10:10 PM on October 14, 2022 [1 favorite]

This is great.
posted by CCBC at 1:13 AM on October 15, 2022 [1 favorite]

When I last travelled to Australia, I flew with Thai Airways. At the beginning of the flight, they played a short film about King Norodom Sihanouk's contributions to Thai aviation. (IIRC, he was a trained pilot, and a keen supporter of aviation.) At the time, I put it down to Thailand's worshipful attitude to their royalty, filing it alongside it being technically a crime to step on a coin that's rolling away because it has the King's portrait on it.
posted by acb at 4:33 AM on October 15, 2022 [1 favorite]

Something haunting about how this is all right before the Cambodian civil war and the US bombing campaign that would shape so much of subsequent Cambodian history.
posted by grobstein at 10:53 AM on October 15, 2022

I'm trying to remember what Spalding Gray said about him in Swimming to Cambodia. There's a phrase that goes something like "that happy, sexy, sax-playing Prince".
posted by neuron at 10:36 AM on October 16, 2022