The act of killing / a film by Joshua Oppenheimer ; produced by Final Cut for Real ApS ; directed by Joshua Oppenheimer ; produced by Signe Byrge Sørensen ; executive producers, Errol Morris, Werner Herzog, André Singer, Joram ten Brink, Torstein Grude, Bjarte Mørner Tveit.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 2029768 | Drafthouse Films2029769 | Drafthouse FilmsLanguage: Indonesian Original language: Indonesian, Indonesian Subtitle language: English Series: Drafthouse Films (Series) ; no. 14.Publisher: [Place not identified] : Final Cut for Real ApS, 2012Distributor: [Littleton, Colo.?] : Drafthouse Films, [2014]Distributor: [New York?] : Cinedigm Entertainment Corp, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Edition: Director's cut and theatrical cutDescription: 2 DVD discs (122 min., 166 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (40 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)Content type: - text
- two-dimensional moving image
- unmediated
- video
- videodisc
- volume
- Cinematographers, Carlos Arango de Montis, Lars Skree, Anonymous; editors, Niels Pagh Andersen ... [et al.]
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Dr. James Carlson Library | DVD | 959.8035 A188 | Available | 33111007879972 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Celebrated documentary filmmakers Errol Morris and Werner Herzog act as executive producers on Joshua Oppenheimer and Christine Cynn's deeply chilling documentary exploring mankind's frightening capacity for violence. Desperate to understand the rationale behind the mass killings of Communists in Indonesia during the 1960s, Oppenheimer and Cynn present former Indonesian death squad leader Anwar Congo with a unique opportunity -- reenact his savage crimes for the camera in the style of his favorite Hollywood films, and allow him the opportunity to speak candidly about his memories and motivations for committing mass murder. Later, as Congo recalls the various methods he and his followers used to intimidate and slaughter scores of Communists, the reality of his heinous transgressions begin to set in, and vivid nightmares fill his nights with unspeakable terror. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
Program content: ©2012.
Special features: Disc 1: 45 min. interview with Oppenheimer on Democracy now!; Vice presents: Werner Herzog and Errol Morris on The act of killing; Deleted scenes; Trailers; Disc 2: Audio commentary with executive producer Werner Herzog and director Joshua Oppenheimer; 40 page booklet featuring an essay "The murders of Gonzago" by Errol Morris; Digital download.
disc 1. Theatrical version (122 min.) -- disc 2. Director's cut (166 min.)
Cinematographers, Carlos Arango de Montis, Lars Skree, Anonymous; editors, Niels Pagh Andersen ... [et al.]
Featuring Haji Anif, Syamsul Arifin, Sakhyan Asmara.
"The act of killing" is an examination of the murder of political dissidents in Indonesia by government sponsored death squads in the years following the military coup in 1965, in which the filmmakers were successful in persuading those responsible to reenact the killings for the camera in the fashion of American movies.
In Indonesian with English subtitles.