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The Look of Silence is a danois film of genre Documentary directed by Joshua Oppenheimer released in USA on 30 august 2014 with Joshua Oppenheimer

The Look of Silence (2014)

The Look of Silence
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Released in USA 30 august 2014
Length 1h30
OriginDanemark
Genres Documentary,    Historical
Rating82% 4.144164.144164.144164.144164.14416

The Look of Silence (Indonesian: Senyap, "Silence") is a 2014 Danish documentary film directed by Joshua Oppenheimer about the Indonesian killings of 1965–66. The film is a companion piece to Oppenheimer's 2012 documentary The Act of Killing. It was executive produced by Werner Herzog, Errol Morris, and Andre Singer.

Synopsis

A middle-aged Indonesian man, whose brother was brutally murdered in the 1965 purge of "communists," confronts the men who carried out the killings. Out of concern for his safety, the man is not fully identified in the film and is credited only as "anonymous," as are many of the film's crew positions. Some shots consist of the man watching (what seems to be) extra footage from The Act of Killing, which includes video of the men who killed his brother. He visits some of the killers and their collaborators—including his uncle—under the pretense of an eye exam. Although none of the killers express any remorse, the daughter of one of them is clearly shaken when she hears, apparently for the first time, the details of the killings.

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Joshua Oppenheimer

(Self (voice))
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