
Feature film — 2014
The Look of Silence (2014)
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.
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Director: Joshua Oppenheimer
On screen
Cast & crew

Adi Rukun
Self
M.Y. Basrun
Self
Amir Hasan
Self (archive footage)
Inong
Self
Kemat
Self

Joshua Oppenheimer
Self (voice)
Amir Siahaan
Self

Ted Yates
Self (archive footage)
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