Description
The Act of Killing / Directed by Joshua Oppenheimer / 2 DISC EDITION WITH SPECIAL FEATURES / Dogwoof studios / DVD Video
UPC 5050968009947
Playtime is 275 Minutes
REGION 2 PAL DVD
Academy Award-nominated documentary about members of the Indonesian death squads who tortured and killed over 500,000 people throughout 1965 and 1966.
Director Joshua Oppenheimer meets with Anwar Congo, a man who is proud and boastful of his involvement in the killings and who still lives alongside relatives of the people he has murdered.
In an attempt to understand Anwar's attitudes towards the atrocities he personally committed, Oppenheimer asks that he recreate some of his more memorable killings with the help of the film crew and equipment.
What transpires is a surreal and harrowing look at one of the most terrible acts of genocide which encourages reflection not only from the spectator but the participants themselves.
The film received an Oscar nomination and the BAFTA for Best Documentary.
When the government of Indonesia was overthrown by the military in 1965, more than one 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 film 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 into the memories and imaginations of the unrepentant perpetrators and the shockingly banal regime of corruption and impunity they inhabit.
- Format: DVD
- Region: 2
- EAN: 5050968009947
- Catalogue Number: DOG289
- Studio: Dogwoof
- Release date: 25/11/2013
- Genre: Documentaries & Biographies
- Colour: Colour
