During the Cambodian Civil War, she continued making numerous movies, and played her most famous role in Puos Keng Kang, with her director and mentor Tea Lim Koun.

[1] After the Khmer Rouge came to power in 1975, Dy Saveth, who was visiting friends in Bangkok during the fall of Phnom Penh,[2] escaped with Huoy Keng to France, while four of her siblings were left to during the Cambodian genocide.

There they separated while Keng continued his film business and became one of Hong Kong's first millionaires; meanwhile, Saveth abandoned acting and became a flower arranger with a florist in Paris.

Saveth, as one of the rare artists and actresses along with Prum Manh to have survived the Cambodian genocide, has become an important link in the transmission of collective memory in Cambodia.

[11] Dy Saveth, who lives surrounded by photos of film-makers and actors lost during the Khmer rouge period, embodies the imperative to testify, to speak for and remember those who died.Saveth was featured in many films throughout the 1960s and 1970s until the communist takeover in 1975, and later from 1993 to present.