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The Look of Silence

Year
2014
Director
Joshua Oppenheimer
Runtime
100 min
Genre
History, Documentary
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Synopsis

An Indonesian man with a communist background named Ramli was brutally murdered when the "Communist" purge occurred in 1965. His remaining family members lived in fear and silence until the making of this documentary. Adi, a brother of his, decided to revisit the horrific incident and visited the men who were responsible for the killings and one survivor of the purge. These meetings uncovered sadistic details of the murders and exposed raw emotions and reactions of the killers' family members about what happened in the past - much to Adi's disappointment.

Festival record

  • LFF 14
  • VEN 14
  • CAN 12

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Cast

  • Adi RukunSelf
  • M.Y. BasrunSelf
  • Amir HasanSelf (archive footage)
  • InongSelf
  • KematSelf
  • Joshua OppenheimerSelf (voice)
  • Amir SiahaanSelf
  • Ted YatesSelf (archive footage)

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