Churning the Sea of Time: A Journey Up the Mekong to Angkor
2006•1h 14m•Released
Documentary
One of the mythic journeys of our time, through the exquisite, complicated, surprising terrain of Vietnam and Cambodia to the great ruins at Angkor - the magnificent Khmer temples being painstakingly restored deep in the Cambodian jungle. It is a high definition odyssey up a river far distanced in time from the corridor into the heart of darkness portrayed in Francis Coppola's "Apocalypse Now." In Angkor, the World Monuments Fund's John Stubbs and John Sanday describe their 15-year restoration of one of the jewels of a city called "the eighth wonder of the world." As we go inside the 12th Century temple complex of Preah Khan, along with the other major sites of Angkor Wat, Bayon and Banteay Srei, we learn that the story of their work in Angkor is not only a story of the rebirth of Angkor after the horrors of the Khmer Rouge Era, but it also is a story of the rebirth of Cambodia.
Director
Les Guthman
Writer
Les Guthman
Studio
Present Focus
Cast
Les Guthman
Self - Narrator
Simone Kaufmann
Self
John Sanday
Self
John Stubbs
Self
Production
Company
Present Focus
Company
XPLR Productions
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