The act of killing
Edition
Director's cut.
Languages
In Indonesian, with English subtitles.
Performers
Anwar Congo, Herman Koto.
Publication Information
[New York, NY] : Cinedigm Entertainment
Physical Description
1 videodisc (166 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
Not rated.
Uniform Title
Summary
This chilling and inventive documentary, executive-produced by Errol Morris (The Fog of War) and Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man), examines a country where death squad leaders are celebrated as heroes, and are challenged to reenact their real-life mass killings in the style of the American movies they love. The hallucinatory result 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 container.
"No. 14"--Container spine.
Originally produced as a documentary in 2012.
Special features: audio commentary with executive producer Werner Herzog and director Joshua Oppenheimer.
Subjects
- Mass murderers > Indonesia.
- Death squads > Indonesia.
- Paramilitary forces > Indonesia.
- Genocide > Indonesia.
- Mass murder > Indonesia.
- Massacres > Indonesia.
- Political corruption > Indonesia.
- Organized crime > Indonesia.
- Political crimes and offenses > Indonesia.
- Anti-communist movements > Indonesia.
- Indonesia > History > Coup d'état, 1965.
- Indonesia > Social conditions > History > 20th century.
- Indonesia > Politics and government > 20th century.
- Pemuda Pancasila (Organization)
- Congo, Anwar.
- Koto, Herman.