Shadow play / written, produced and directed by Chris Hilton ; a co-production of Hilton Cordell/Vagabond Films and Thirteen/WNET New York in association with the Australian Film Finance Corporation.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Hilton, Chris, screenwriter, film director, film producer.

Hunt, Linda, 1945- narrator.

Hilton Cordell & Associates, production company.

Vagabond Media (Firm), production company.

WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.), production company.

Icarus Films, distributor.

Language:

English

Indonesian

Subjects (All):

Political atrocities.

Indonesia--History--Coup d'état, 1965.

Indonesia.

History.

Political atrocities--Indonesia.

Communism--Indonesia.

Communism.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 streaming video file (57 min.) : digital, sound, color with black and white sequences

Place of Publication:

[Brooklyn, New York] : [Distributed by] Icarus Films, [2019]

Language Note:

In English, with some interviews in Indonesian with English subtitles.

System Details:

System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

video file

Summary:

On Sept. 30, 1965, 6 Indonesian generals were dragged from their beds and murdered. The murders were blamed on the communists associated with Indonesian president Sukarno, and used as a pretext for a military coup by General Suharto. A bloody reign of terror followed, with the tacit approval of Western powers willing to support Suharto's purge of communists from Indonesia.

Participant:

Narrated by Linda Hunt ; includes interviews with Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Don North, Hugh Tovar, Aristides Katoppo, Edward Masters, Kemal Idris, John Hughes, Joyo Santoso, Roland Challis, Arief Budiman, Abdul Latief and others.

Credits:

Editor, Karin Steininger ; cinematography: Simon Smith ; original music by Scott Saunders.

Notes:

Title from title frames.

Originally produced by: Hilton Cordell/Vagabond Films, ©2002.

Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed December 19, 2019).

Publisher Number:

if-shap Docuseek2

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.