The Pol Pot regime wanted to erase the 2000 year-old culture of Cambodia. Schools were destroyed, teachers and pupils kidnapped, tortured and killed. In September 1980, the School of Fine Arts reopens in Phnom Penh, in March 1981, there are 110 pupils, among them many orphans.
| Directing | Walter Heynowski | Director |
| Directing | Gerhard Scheumann | Director |
| Camera | Peter Hellmich | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Walter Heynowski | Writer |
| Writing | Gerhard Scheumann | Writer |
| Editing | Traute Wischnewski | Editor |
| Sound | Manfred Berger | Sound |