Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell was released on May 15, 2011.

Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell was directed by Rithy Panh.

Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell has a runtime of 1h 43m.

Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell was produced by Catherine Dussart.

Between 1975 and 1979, the Khmer Rouge regime caused the death of some 1.8 million people, representing one-quarter of the population of Cambodia. Kang Kek Lew, better known as Duch, was in charge at M13, a Khmer Rouge-controlled prison, for four years before being appointed by the Angkar ("the Organisation", a faceless and omnipresent entity which reigned unopposed over the destiny of an entire people) to the S21 centre in Phnom Penh. As party secretary, he commanded from 1975 to 1979 the Khmer Rouge killing machine in which at least 12,280 people perished, according to the remaining archives. But how many others disappeared, "crushed and reduced to dust", with no trace of them ever being found? In 2009, Duch became the first leader of the Khmer Rouge organisation to be brought before an international criminal justice court. Rithy Panh records his unadorned words, without any trimmings, in the isolation of a face-to-face encounter. At the same time, he sets it into perspective with archive pictures and eye-witness accounts of survivors. As the narrative unfolds, the infernal machine of a system of destruction of humanity implacably emerges, through a manic description of the minutiae of its mechanisms.

The key characters in Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell are Self (Kang Kek Lew).

Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell is rated Not Rated.

Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell is a Documentary, History film.

Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell has an audience rating of 7.2 out of 10.