The Act of Killing / a film by Joshua Oppenheimer

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmLanguage: indo, English Producer: United States : Dogwoof, 2013Description: 1 videodisc (115 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • video disc
Subject(s): Production credits:
  • Directed by Joshua Oppenheimer ; Producer: Signe Byrge Sørensen, Errol Morris, Werner Herzog, and André Singer
Cast: Haji Anif, Sjamsul Arifin, Sakhyan Asmara Summary: When the government of Indonesia was overthrown by the military in 1965, more than a million people were killed in less than a year. Anwar and his friends were promoted from ticket scalpers to death squad leaders, and Anwar killed hundreds of people with his own hands. In the Act of Killing, Anwar and his friends agree to tell us the story of the killings. But their idea of being in a movie is not to provide testimony for a documentary: they want to be stars in their favourite genres - gangster, western, musical. They write the scripts, they play themselves, and they play their victims. The Act of Killing is a nightmarish vision - a journey in to the memories and imaginations of the unrepentant perpetrators and the shockingly banal regime of corruption and impunity they inhabit.
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Directed by Joshua Oppenheimer ; Producer: Signe Byrge Sørensen, Errol Morris, Werner Herzog, and André Singer

Haji Anif, Sjamsul Arifin, Sakhyan Asmara

When the government of Indonesia was overthrown by the military in 1965, more than a million people were killed in less than a year. Anwar and his friends were promoted from ticket scalpers to death squad leaders, and Anwar killed hundreds of people with his own hands. In the Act of Killing, Anwar and his friends agree to tell us the story of the killings. But their idea of being in a movie is not to provide testimony for a documentary: they want to be stars in their favourite genres - gangster, western, musical. They write the scripts, they play themselves, and they play their victims. The Act of Killing is a nightmarish vision - a journey in to the memories and imaginations of the unrepentant perpetrators and the shockingly banal regime of corruption and impunity they inhabit.

DVD

Indonesian dialogue; with English subtitles

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