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13/11/2014 History, Documentary 1h 40m
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Overview

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.

  1. Joshua Oppenheimer

    Director

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. Joshua Oppenheimer

    Self (voice)

  7. Amir Siahaan

    Self

  8. Ted Yates

    Self (archive footage)

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Reviews

A review by Frank Ochieng
Written by Frank Ochieng on 2015-10-19
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.

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$332,710.00

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