The Look of Silence (2014)

11/13/2014History, Documentary1h 40m
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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

  1. Adi Rukun

    Self

  2. M.Y. Basrun

    Self

  3. Amir Hasan

    Self (archive footage)

  4. Inong

    Self

  5. Kemat

    Self

  6. Cast 1

    Joshua Oppenheimer

    Self (voice)

  7. Amir Siahaan

    Self

  8. Ted Yates

    Self (archive footage)

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...