Dy Saveth

Dy Saveth

Historia

Dy Saveth starred in over 100 films between 1962 to 1975, most of which are now lost. She married Huoy Keng, an actor, producer and film director, during the 1970s. After the Khmer Rouge came to power in Cambodia, Dy Saveth and Huoy Keng fled to France and later moved to Hong Kong, where they later separated. Saveth returned to Cambodia in 1993 and resumed acting.

Perfil

Dy Saveth

Películas

When Mom Gets Old
A film about the lives of two mothers and their children reflects the real life that is happening in today's society. After years of waiting, the long-awaited finale is finally over, as "When My Mother Gets Old", the third series to tell the story of a mother's life after "Mother's Heart" and "Modern Mother".
Turn Left Turn Right
Kanitha, a young, free-spirited Cambodian woman in her 20s, lives in modern-day Phnom Penh, working multiple jobs and choosing to live how she pleases. However, her daydreaming creates tension with her traditional mother, who wants a daughter that will settle down to get married, and Kanitha seems ambivalent to her father's deteriorating health. The family's struggle seems immutable, but Kanitha dreams an idea born from memories of her father. TURN LEFT TURN RIGHT is structured as an album, with tracks and sounds influencing the form. The film weaves Cambodian rock songs together with motifs of family, nature, and boundless imagination.
The Last Reel
Srey Mom
A lost film, buried beneath Cambodia's killing fields, reveals different versions of the truth. A contemporary story about love, family and the ghosts of Cambodia's past.
Golden Slumbers
Herself - Actress
Over three million Cambodians died in the genocide between 1975 and 1979. The Khmer Rouge’s reign of terror also decimated a homegrown film industry that had flourished since 1960: movie theaters were bombed, film prints were destroyed and artists were executed. In Golden Slumbers, French-Cambodian filmmaker Davy Chou mourns this loss of lives and culture, but balances the somber material with a playfulness that honors the lush melodramas and mythic adventures of the glory years.
The Crocodile
After a series of deadly crocodile attacks, a farmer decides to become a crocodile hunter.
Elephant Wife
Associate Producer
An adventure / horror story.
Elephant Wife
(as Sha-yue Li)
An adventure / horror story.
Crocodile Man 2
Chompa Tong, the daughter of the king , is kidnapped by a shapeshifting crocodile and the young prince called Jak Jan, swims into the water to save her.
The Snake Girl Drops In
A young snake girl is kidnapped by raiders in the jungle. The local Gang Boss wants to torture her but his jailer will help her to escape.
The Snake King’s Wife Part 2
Soriya
Angered by the constant bad luck that has befallen her family, the Snake Girl decides that enough is enough and uses her curse to take revenge on her enemies.
The Snake Girl
Ah Mei
Big Madam poisons her husband and throws her adopted sister into a snake pit where she has sex with the snakes and gives birth to the beautiful Snake Girl. When her son falls in love with Snake Girl, Big Madam tries to kill her.
Bopha Angkor
Director
A young nurse meets a tourist from Hong Kong at Angkor Wat, and they fall in love. Later, they encounter each other again, with the nurse in the Cambodian Army and the tourist as a war reporter.
Bopha Angkor
A young nurse meets a tourist from Hong Kong at Angkor Wat, and they fall in love. Later, they encounter each other again, with the nurse in the Cambodian Army and the tourist as a war reporter.
The Snake Man
Soriya
After an affair with the fabled Snake King, a woman gives birth to a son she names Veasna. After Veasna finds a wife, a witch curses their daughter to be born with snakes instead of hair.
Crocodile Man
Based on a legend in Buddhist mythology, this tells the story of a religious disciple who defies rules and reads from an ancient scripture that turns him into a huge crocodile.
Twilight
Sopheap
An ailing Khmer prince falls in love with Maharani Maya of India, his guest. The government of Cambodia sent him a trained nurse named Sopheap, who served him with devotion. But the prince was totally unaware of the rumblings in her heart.
Tragic Destiny
Nari and Sok make a promise to marry very soon, but prince Thamavong abducts the young woman to be his wife. While Sok tries to take back his beloved, the first wife of polygamous prince makes a very sad plan.
Shadow Over Angkor
General's wife
General Mchulpich plots a coup with the CIA and South Vietnam to secede two provinces from Cambodia.