Movie: Rain Falls from Earth: Surviving Cambodia's Darkest Hour

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Sam Waterston
Sam Waterston

Self (voice)

Thida Buth
Thida Buth

Im Chaem
Im Chaem

Monirith Chhea
Monirith Chhea

Vollevann Kaylor
Vollevann Kaylor

Sandy Kelley
Sandy Kelley

Vann Nath
Vann Nath

Savann Kunneke
Savann Kunneke

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    Rain Falls from Earth: Surviving Cambodia's Darkest Hour

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    On April 17, 1975, the face of Cambodia would forever be changed. As Khmer Rouge soldiers marched into the capital city of Phnom Penh, the unsuspecting people of Cambodia had little idea they would be forced into a living nightmare that would last nearly four years. Rain Falls From Earth is a story of courage, a story of survival and a story of eventual triumph over the Communist regime that was responsible for the deaths of over two million people. The voices of many Cambodians are heard as they convey their thoughts, ideas and emotions - the very things they were forced to abandon in the "killing fields" of Cambodia. Their stories are an eyewitness account to genocide.

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