6 Jolie would also produce the film along with Rithy Panh, while Jolie's son Maddox Jolie-Pitt would be an executive producer. Much like Anne Franks diary, Loung Ungs First They Killed My Father, gives a personal account of what it was like as a child to be faced with a regime. Looking back, I now see how my father’s love and my mother’s courage gave me the hope and strength to survive. On July 23, 2015, it was announced that Angelina Jolie would direct a film adaptation of the memoir First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung for Netflix, for which Jolie and Ung co-wrote the script. Whenever there was a time I felt like giving up, I thought of them and fought to live so I could honor their life. My mother was the strongest person I’ll ever know and my father-perhaps-the most loving. Looking back on those traumatic five years, Ung says, “Looking back, I now see how my father’s love and my mother’s courage gave me the hope and strength to survive. A year later, Loung’s oldest brother Meng, now a newlywed, had finally received sponsorship to come to the United States for himself, his wife, and Loung. In 1979, the remaining Ung family members were reunited. Soon to be a major film, co-written and directed by Angelina Jolie Pitt Until the age of five, Loung Ung lived in Phnom Penh, one of seven children of a. In November 1978, she fled in the middle of the night, returning to Ro Leap to find her mother and youngest sister, only to hear they were abducted by the Khmer Rouge and were never heard from again. By the age of seven, Ung had been recruited to train as a child soldier For 17 months, Loung was forced to learn how to fight Vietnamese soldiers.
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