2014 · Denmark, Finland, Indonesia, Norway, United Kingdom, United States
The Look of Silence
Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Language
- English
- Country
- Denmark, Finland, Indonesia, Norway, United Kingdom, United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
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.
- loss of loved one
- mass murder
- biography
- indonesia
- torture
- murderer
- genocide
- guilt
- death of brother
- ophthalmologist
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Kemat — Self
- Joshua Oppenheimer — Self (voice)
- Amir Siahaan — Self
- Ted Yates — Self (archive footage)
- Directed
- Joshua Oppenheimer
Production
- Rating
- 7.8 / 10 · 324 ratings
- Studio
- Making Movies, Final Cut for Real, Piraya Film, Spring Films, Anonymous, Britdoc Foundation
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
