Meeting with Pol Pot vs War and Music
War and Music has the higher audience score (8.5/10 against 5.9/10 for Meeting with Pol Pot). Meeting with Pol Pot is the older of the two (2024 against 2025). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Meeting with Pol Pot
War and Music| Meeting with Pol Pot | War and Music | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 5.9/10 | ★ 8.5/10 |
| Year | 2024 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 53m | – |
| Genres | Drama, History | Drama, History, War |
| Country | – | Russia |
| Director | Rithy Panh | Sarik Andreasyan |
| Main cast | Grégoire Colin, Irène Jacob, Cyril Gueï, Bun-Hok Lim, Somaline Mao | Nicholay Kovbas, Michael Janibekyan, David Mkhitarel, Sergey Melkonyan, David Kotov-Oganesyan |
Synopsis
Meeting with Pol Pot
Democratic Kampuchea (Cambodia) - 1978. Three French journalists are invited by the Khmer Rouge to conduct an exclusive interview of the regime's leader, Pol Pot. The country seems ideal. But behind the Potemkin village, the Khmer Rouge regime is declining and the war with Vietnam threatens to invade the country. The regime is looking for culprits, secretly carrying out a large scale genocide. Under the eyes of the journalists, the beautiful…
War and Music
The war burst into the peaceful life of three friends suddenly, forever changing their destinies. Each of them went to the front, leaving the most valuable things at home in order to fight for this most valuable thing. Surprisingly, they are helped to survive in this fiery hell of battles with fascism, music. Taking musical instruments with them, friends play to maintain the morale of fellow soldiers, as well as to compose the leitmotif of…
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