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Behind the Lens - Enemies of the People

Filmmaker Rob Lemkin sits down with Geoffrey Smith, whose films "The English Surgeon" and "Presumed Guilty" premiered on POV, to talk about "Enemies of the People." Lemkin describes how he met his co-director, Thet Sambath, and Sambath's unique way of gaining the trust of the Khmer Rouge killers for the film.

Behind the Lens - Enemies of the People

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