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FILM DIRECTOR

Rithy Panh

1964 - Today

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Rithy Panh (Khmer: ប៉ាន់ រិទ្ធី; born April 18, 1964) is a Cambodian documentary film director and screenwriter. The French-schooled director's films focus on the aftermath of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. Rithy Panh's works are from an authoritative viewpoint, because his family were expelled from Phnom Penh in 1975 by the Khmer Rouge. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rithy Panh has received more than 143,570 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Rithy Panh is the 1,419th most popular film director (down from 1,296th in 2019), the 33rd most popular biography from Cambodia (down from 30th in 2019) and the most popular Cambodian Film Director.

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  • 40.76

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  • 16

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  • 5.05

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  • 1.89

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Rithy Panh ranks 1,419 out of 1,581Before him are Jan Svěrák, Art Clokey, Joe Carnahan, Raja Gosnell, Ken Hughes, and Tom Six. After him are H. Bruce Humberstone, Benoît Lamy, Mike Flanagan, Mark Sandrich, Robin Campillo, and V. Shantaram.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1964, Rithy Panh ranks 426Before him are Akihiro Nagashima, The Boogeyman, Tiit Sokk, Eytan Fox, Jean-Paul Vonderburg, and Ernst Vettori. After him are Luis Medina Cantalejo, Uwe Ampler, Susan Rice, Astrid Carolina Herrera, Makharbek Khadartsev, and Valentina Yegorova.

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In Cambodia

Among people born in Cambodia, Rithy Panh ranks 33 out of 35Before him are Penn Nouth (1906), Sisowath Sirik Matak (1914), Sam Rainsy (1949), Dith Pran (1942), Pen Sovan (1936), and François Chau (1959). After him are Somaly Mam (1970) and Chan Vathanaka (1994).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In Cambodia

Among film directors born in Cambodia, Rithy Panh ranks 1

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