Packet 3: Tossup 2

An actor who survived escaping this modern-day country by eating scorpions was shot to death by a gang who robbed a locket (15[1])depicting his dead wife, whom he was unable to save from dying in childbirth. A 2013 film about this country, The Missing Picture, (15[1])opens (15[2])with (15[1])footage from Apsara, a film by one of (15[1])its former (-5[1])leaders. A gynecologist won (15[1])an Oscar for his debut role in a film set in this country whose supporting (-5[1])cast includes Athol Fugard and Spalding Gray. (15[1])A 2000 film (15[1])ends with a montage depicting a (-5[1])structure in this country where (15[1])a man (*) whispers (10[1])into a hole (10[2])before filling it (10[1])with dirt. A memoir about this country inspired (0[1])Angelina Jolie’s film First They Killed My Father. In a 1984 film, New York Times reporter Sydney Schamberg discovers that this country’s journalist Dith Pran has been forced into manual labor under the “Year Zero” policy. For 10 points, the finale of In the Mood for Love is set in what Asian country depicted in The Killing Fields? ■END■

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