The Look of Silence
Released: November 13, 2014Runtime: 100 min
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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Adi Rukun
as Self - brother of murdered Ramli Rukun
M Y Basrun
as Self - former commander of a civilian militia
Volker Hanisch
as Self - Sprecher
Amir Hasan
as Self - former leader of death squad
Inong
as Self - former leader the village death squad
Kemat
as Self - survivor from Snake River massacre
Joshua Oppenheimer
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Achim Schuelke
as Self - Sprecher
Amir Siahaan
as Self - former commander of Snake River death squads
Ted Yates
as Self - reporter, NBC News
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