The Look of Silence

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The Look of Silence (2015)

07/17/2015 (US) History, Documentary 1h 40m

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An optician grapples with the Indonesian mass killings of 1965-1966, during which his older brother was exterminated.

Joshua Oppenheimer

Director

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Adi Rukun

Himself, brother of murdered Ramli Rukun
M.Y. Basrun

Himself, former commander of a civilian militia
Amir Hasan

Himself, former leader of death squad (archive footage)
Inong

Himself, former leader the village death squad
Kemat

Himself, survivor from Snake River massacre
Joshua Oppenheimer

Self (voice)
Amir Siahaan

Himself, former commander of Snake River death squads
Ted Yates

Himself, reporter, NBC News (archive footage)

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Filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer was instrumental in delivering one of the most harrowing and heart-breaking documentaries in 2013’s The Act of Killing. As an impressive result of the critically acclaimed documentarian’s gut-wrenching narrative, The Act of Killing deservedly earned an Academy Award nomination for its unsettling truth and revelation. Killing concentrated on the frightening accounts involving the 1965 Indonesian genocide of over one million slaughtered people earmarked with “communist” labeling.

Well Oppenheimer ‘s The Act of Killing astutely offers a charged follow-up to this... read the rest.

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