The Act of Killing
Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn / NO, GB, DK, 2012 / 115 min.
Joshua Oppenheimer’s documentary on the paramilitary death squads who murdered almost a million Indonesian communists in the 1960s on behalf of Suharto is both surreal and terrifying.
Werner Herzog, who executive produced, said after his first viewing that he had not seen a documentary in the past ten years that was “so powerful, surreal and terrifying” as Oppenheimer’s film.
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Director
Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn
Production year
2012
Country
NO, GB, DK
Original title
The Act of Killing
Length
115 min.
Language
English, Indonesian
Subtitles
NLD
Format
DCP
Part of
Badlands
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