Supporting actor Spalding Gray wrote a one-man show about his experience in making this film, and then made another film Swimming to Cambodiabased on this .
Haing S. Ngorbecame the first Southeast Asianactor to win an Oscar.
The Coca-Cola factory in the film originally envisaged a Pepsi factory, but Pepsi later refused to appear in the film.
The actor of DithPran is the Chinese doctor Haing S. Ngor. Haing S. Ngor was originally an overseas Chinese doctor in the era of the Khmer Rouge terror in Cambodia. He escaped the bloody Khmer massacre and fled to the United States
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The two protagonists of the film do have their own people. They are the "New York Times" reporter Sidney Shanberg and the protagonist of his article Dieter Plan
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