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The Look of Silence( 2015)

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Overview

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

    Top Billed Cast

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      Adi Rukun

      Self

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      M.Y. Basrun

      Self

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      Amir Hasan

      Self (archive footage)

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      Inong

      Self

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      Kemat

      Self

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      Joshua Oppenheimer

      Self (voice)

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      Amir Siahaan

      Self

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      Ted Yates

      Self (archive footage)

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    A review by Frank Ochieng

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    Written by Frank Ochieng on Mon Oct 19 2015
    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 ...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

    -

    Revenue

    332710.00

    Keywords

    • loss of loved one
    • mass murder
    • biography
    • indonesia
    • torture
    • murderer
    • genocide
    • guilt
    • death of brother
    • ophthalmologist
    • indonesian genocide