The Look of Silence
A grieving brother returns to Indonesia’s 1965 purge to confront the men who killed his sibling, forcing a nation’s hidden trauma into the light and risking deadly retaliation.
Synopsis
Ramli, an Indonesian man with a communist background, was brutally murdered during the "Communist" purge in 1965. His surviving family lived in fear and silence until the making of this documentary. Adi, Ramli's brother, decided to revisit the incident by meeting the men responsible for the killings and one survivor of the purge. These meetings revealed disturbing details about the murders and exposed the raw emotions and reactions of the killers' family members regarding the past, which deeply disappointed Adi.
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- M Y Basrunas Self - former commander of a civilian militia
- Volker Hanischas Self - Sprecher
- Amir Hasanas Self - former leader of death squad
- Inongas Self - former leader the village death squad
- Kematas Self - survivor from Snake River massacre
- Amir Siahaanas Self - former commander of Snake River death squads
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Principal cast & crew: 16
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Edited by Nils Pagh AndersenShot by Lars SkreeScored by Seri Banang
Box Office
2014 · Box office
Grossed $333K worldwide
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$333K
Also known as
- Im Angesicht der Stillede
- The Look of Silence - Im Angesicht der Stillede
- La mirada del silencioes
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Cast & Crew
16 unique people credited
Top billed cast
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
Amir Siahaan
as Self - former commander of Snake River death squads
Ted Yates
as Self - reporter, NBC News
Adi Rukun
as Self - brother of murdered Ramli Rukun
Joshua Oppenheimer
as Self
Achim Schuelke
as Self - Sprecher
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1Other crew
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