Film
Twilight (1969 film)
Twilight (សន្ធិប្រកាស; French: Crépuscule) is a 1969 Cambodian feature film by Norodom Sihanouk, who produced, wrote and directed it and plays its lead.[1][2] Its love story is set among the temples of Angkor, and the singer Dy Saveth plays one of the two women in it.[1][3]
Story
The plot is a love triangle. Sihanouk plays Adit, a Cambodian prince loved by Maharani Maya, an Indian woman played by Princess Monique, the future Queen Mother of Cambodia. Adit loves Maya in return, but he is also drawn to a young woman, Sopheap, played by Dy Saveth.[1]
The story takes its inspiration from Angkor, a book by the archaeologist Bernard-Philippe Groslier, and the main character reads several passages of the book aloud.[1]
Production
Sihanouk worked on the film from 1967 to 1969. Angkor Database reads it as an expression of his worry, in those years, about Cambodia's future as an independent and non-aligned country.[1] The film runs 62 minutes and is in French and Khmer.[1]
Dy Saveth told Cambodge Mag that she had been nervous about acting opposite the king, and the magazine writes that the part made her better known still.[3]
Reception
Twilight won the Golden Apsara Award at the 1969 Phnom Penh International Film Festival.[2]