Puthisen Neang Kongrey

Jan 1 1968 N/A 1h 40m

Fantasy

Twelve sisters who escaped at the start of their human-eating mother, are marry at the same time the king. But the ogress craves revenge and deceives the king as an attractive woman. The ogress ensures that the twelve sisters lose their eyesight and are imprisoned in a cave. Where they eat their own children to survive. Only the little Puthisen, the son of the youngest sister, is spared. Puthisen grows then into the cave from child to young man. As a young adult he decides to liberate his mother and the eleven aunts.

Plot

Made with scant resources and homespun technology in 1968, 12 Sisters could still rival any 21st century horror film with its imaginative visual effects, harrowing bloodshed, and a fantastic storyline driven by infanticide, patricide and much more besides. A key figure of the bustling "golden age" of Cambodian cinema between 1960 and 1975, director Ly Bun Yim transformed a traditional Khmer fairy tale into a psychedelic cinematic spectacle. Once considered lost amidst the ravages of the Khmer Rouge, 12 Sisters' second coming only began in 2013 when a 35mm print was rediscovered at the house of Ly's son in California, with the director eventually supervising the digitisation and resynchronisation of its original Khmer-language soundtrack in 2017.

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Directed by

Ly Bun Yim

Cast

Kon Samoeun, Virak Dara, Nop Nem

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Cambodia

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Runteas Pich

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6.1 out of 10

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