He became famous through his academy award-winning performance as dith pran in the film, but the key to Haing Ngor's screen success was the terrible truth of his own experiences in the rice paddies and labour camps of re...He became famous through his academy award-winning performance as dith pran in the film, but the key to Haing Ngor's screen success was the terrible truth of his own experiences in the rice paddies and labour camps of revolutionary cambodia. Here, in a gripping memoir of life under the communist khmer rouge regime, he reveals the country's descent into a hell beyond our imaginings: a world of war slaves and senseless brutality, where family life simply ceases to be.