The Look of Silence
2015
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The film follows individuals who participated in the Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66, wherein alleged communists and people against the New Order regime were tortured and killed, with the killers, many becoming gangsters, still in power throughout the country.
Nov 8, 2012 · A documentary that challenges former Indonesian death-squad leaders to reenact their mass-killings in various cinematic genres. The film explores the impact of the 1965 genocide on the society and the killers' conscience.
- (41K)
- Documentary, Biography, Crime
- Joshua Oppenheimer, Anonymous, Christine Cynn
- 2012-11-08
Jul 19, 2013 · Raw, terrifying, and painfully difficult to watch, The Act of Killing offers a haunting testament to the edifying, confrontational power of documentary cinema. Read Critics Reviews
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- Anwar Congo, Jusuf Kalla
- Joshua Oppenheimer
- Novaya Zemlya
Jul 19, 2013 · The hallucinatory result is a cinematic fever dream, an unsettling journey deep into the imaginations of mass murderers and the shockingly banal regime of...
- 2 min
- 1.9M
- FilmOfficialTrailers
Feb 20, 2014 · The Oscar-nominated documentary “The Act of Killing” challenges Anwar Congo, a death squad leader during the mass killings in 1965 Indonesia, to re-enact the horrors of his past.
- 2 min
- Victoria Fleischer
Jul 17, 2013 · Presenting a terrifying view of a hidden holocaust and a moral apocalypse in which the most basic humanities have become twisted beyond recognition, “The Act of Killing” is a towering ...
The Act of Killing (Director's Cut) One of the greatest documentaries ever made, filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer and documentary titans, Werner Herzog and Errol Morris examine a country where Indonesian death squad leaders are celebrated as heroes, challenging them to reenact their real-life mass-killings via musical numbers, action and comedy ...
