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The act of killing / directed by Joshua Oppenheimer ; produced by Signe Byrge Sørensen ; produced by Final Cut for Real Aps ; co-produced with Piraya Film and Novaya Zemlya Ltd.

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Format:
Video
Contributor:
Oppenheimer, Joshua, 1974- director.
Sørensen, Signe Byrge, producer.
Film Platform, film distributor.
Final Cut for Real (Firm), production company.
Piraya Film (Firm), production company.
Novaya Zemlya Ltd., production company.
Series:
Academic Video Online
Language:
English
Indonesian
Subjects (All):
Crimes against humanity--Indonesia.
Crimes against humanity.
Genocide--Indonesia.
Genocide.
Indonesia--History--Coup d'état, 1965.
Indonesia.
Indonesia--Social conditions--20th century.
Genre:
Documentary films.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (160 minutes)
Place of Publication:
Tel-Aviv District : Cinephil, 2012.
Language Note:
In Indonesian, with English subtitles.
System Details:
video file
Summary:
In a country where killers are celebrated as heroes, the filmmakers challenge unrepentant death squad leader Anwar Congo and his friends to dramatise their role in genocide. But their idea of being in a movie is not to provide testimony for a documentary: they want to be stars in their favourite film genres - gangster, western, musical. They write the scripts. They play themselves. And they play their victims. This is a cinematic fever dream, an unsettling journey deep into the imaginations of mass - murderers and the shockingly banal regime of corruption and impunity they inhabit.
Notes:
Title from resource description page (viewed May 04, 2020).
OCLC:
1158199280

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