The Look of Silence
About The Look of Silence
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.
The Look of Silence (2014) is a documentary history film directed by Joshua Oppenheimer. The film is filed under guilt, mass murder, murderer, and genocide.
Adi Rukun appears as Self, M.Y. Basrun as Self, Amir Hasan as Self (archive footage), and Inong as Self. It runs 100 minutes and was released in September 2014.
In the United States it streams on Fandor.
The Act of Killing, First They Killed My Father, and GoodFellas make useful companions to The Look of Silence, all filed under indonesia and indonesian genocide. TMDB voters put it at 7.8 out of 10 across 327 votes.