The Act of Killing (Indonesian: Jagal, lit. 'Butcher') is a 2012 documentary film directed by Joshua Oppenheimer, with Christine Cynn and an anonymous Indonesian co-directing. The film follows individuals who participated in the Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66, wherein alleged communists and people opposed to the New Order regime were tortured and killed, with the killers, many becoming ...
The Act of Killing: Directed by Anonymous, Christine Cynn, Joshua Oppenheimer. With Anwar Congo, Herman Koto, Syamsul Arifin, Ibrahim Sinik. A documentary which challenges former Indonesian death-squad leaders to reenact their mass-killings in whichever cinematic genres they wish, including classic Hollywood crime scenarios and lavish musical numbers.
ERROL MORRIS Errol Morris became executive producer of THE ACT OF KILLING in early 2010, after Joshua Oppenheimer screened two hours of roughly edited scenes for him at his office in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Fascinated, Errol compared the material to one of his favorite films of all time, Kazuo Hara’s THE EMPEROR’S NAKED ARMY MARCHES ON.
"The Act of Killing" introduces us to several Indonesian mass murderers who jump at the chance offered by this documentary's maker, Joshua Oppenheimer, to make their own movie, a chronicle of their years carrying out an anti-Communist purge that claimed over a million lives in 1965-66. This seemingly odd compulsion to confess becomes the film's (and the film-within-the-film's) grandest special ...
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The Act of Killing describes the Indonesian mass killings that occurred between 1965 and 1966 and the men who carried them out. Following the country’s failed coup, Anwar Congo and his associates embarked on a murder spree that devastated Indonesia. These mass killings amounted to a genocide in which more than a million people were killed. Invited to participate in the documentary, Anwar ...