An Ambition Reduced to Ashes
An Ambition Reduced to Ashes is a 1995 Cambodian short film drama directed by Norodom Sihanouk.
The director is also well known as Prince Sihanouk, former head of state of Cambodia ousted by the infamous Khmer Rouge in 1974 by the new Cambodian leader, Pol Pot.
Since that time, Sihanouk has been immersed in film making as a director.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Reginald Le Borg
Reginald Le Borg( 11 December 1902 – 25 March 1989) was an Austrian film director.
He was born in Vienna, Austria as Reginald Grobel and directed 68 films between 1936 and 1974.
Although he worked in a variety of genres, he is perhaps best remembered today for the series of low- budget horror films he made at Universal Studios in the 1940s.
His most expensive and also most successful film was" San Diego, I Love You"( 1944) featuring Buster Keaton in a supporting role.
Le Borg died in Los Angeles, California from a heart attack.
Hanro Smitsman
Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television.
Brian Johnson (special effects artist)
Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects.
Ben Cura
Ben Cura( born 30 September 1988) is a British- Argentine actor and director of film, television and theatre.
Norodom Sihanouk
Norodom Sihanouk( 31 October 192215 October 2012) was head of state of Cambodia numerous times.
In Cambodia, he is known as Samdech Euv( father prince).
During his lifetime Cambodia was variously called the French Protectorate of Cambodia( until 1953), the Kingdom of Cambodia( 1953 – 70), the Khmer Republic( 1970 – 75), Democratic Kampuchea( 1975 – 79), the People's Republic of Kampuchea( 1979 – 93), and again the Kingdom of Cambodia( from 1993).
Sihanouk became king of Cambodia in 1941 upon the death of his maternal grandfather, King Monivong.
After the Japanese occupation of Cambodia during the Second World War, he secured Cambodian independence from France.
He abdicated in 1955 and was succeeded by his father, Suramarit.
Sihanouk's political organization Sangkum won the general elections that year and he became prime minister of Cambodia.
He governed it under one- party rule, suppressed political dissent, and declared himself Head of State in 1960.
Officially neutral in foreign relations, in practice he was closer to the communist bloc.
The Cambodian coup of 1970 ousted him and he fled to China and North Korea, there forming a government- in- exile and resistance movement.
He returned as figurehead head of state after the Cambodian Civil War resulted in victory for the Khmer Rouge in 1975.
His relations with the government declined and in 1976 he resigned.
He was placed under house arrest until Vietnamese forces overthrew the Khmer Rouge in 1979.
Sihanouk went into exile again and in 1981 formed FUNCINPEC, a resistance party.
The following year, he became president of the Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea( CGDK), a broad coalition of anti-Vietnamese resistance factions which retained Cambodia's seat at the United Nations, making him Cambodia's internationally recognized head of state.
In the late 1980s, informal talks were carried out to end hostilities between the Vietnam- supported People's Republic of Kampuchea and the CGDK.
In 1990, the Supreme National Council of Cambodia was formed as a transitional body to oversee Cambodia's sovereign matters, with Sihanouk as its president.
The 1991 Paris Peace Accords were signed and the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia( UNTAC) was established the following year.
The UNTAC organized the 1993 Cambodian general elections, and a coalition government, jointly led by his son Norodom Ranariddh and Hun Sen, was subsequently formed.
He was reinstated as Cambodia's king.
He abdicated again in 2004 and the Royal Council of the Throne chose his son, Sihamoni, as his successor.
Sihanouk died in Beijing in 2012.
Between 1941 and 2006, Sihanouk produced and directed 50 films, some of which he acted in.
The films, later described as being of low quality, often featured nationalistic elements, as did a number of the songs he wrote.
Some of his songs were about his wife Queen Monique, the nations neighboring Cambodia, and the communist leaders who supported him in his exile.
In the 1980s Sihanouk held concerts for diplomats in New York City.
He also participated in concerts at his palace during his second reign.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Wyoming Mail
Wyoming Mail is a 1950 American Western film directed by Reginald Le Borg and written by Harry Essex and Leonard Lee.
The film stars Stephen McNally, Alexis Smith, Howard Da Silva, Ed Begley, Dan Riss and Roy Roberts.
The film was released on October 18, 1950, by Universal Pictures.
Mom Soth
Mom Soth is a Cambodian film actor.
He has been featured in three films," Rice People"( 1994)," The Last Days of Colonel Savath"( 1995) and" An Ambition Reduced to Ashes"( 1995).

Question: Are director of film Wyoming Mail and director of film An Ambition Reduced To Ashes both from the same country?
Answer: no