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The Look of Silence
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The Look of Silence

Nov 13, 2014
1h 40m
★ 7.8

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.

Genres

History
Documentary

Production Companies

Making Movies
Final Cut for Real
Piraya Film
Spring Films
Anonymous
Britdoc Foundation
Participant
Doc Society

Cast

Adi Rukun

Self

Adi Rukun

M.Y. Basrun

Self

M.Y. Basrun

Amir Hasan

Self (archive footage)

Amir Hasan

Inong

Self

Inong

Kemat

Self

Kemat

Joshua Oppenheimer

Self (voice)

Joshua Oppenheimer

Amir Siahaan

Self

Amir Siahaan

Ted Yates

Self (archive footage)

Ted Yates

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