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Film · 2012 · Documentary

The Act of Killing

Name: The Act of Killing
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2012

Directed by Joshua Oppenheimer and Christine Cynn

2012

★ 7.8 editorial score

Oppenheimer asked the men who carried out Indonesia's mass killings to restage them as movie scenes, and they agreed gladly: no documentary has ever been braver or harder to sit through.

Genre

Documentary

Subject

Genocide Impunity Memory

Setting

Indonesia

Time

2012

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