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The Act of Killing (The Act of Killing)

Directed by: Joshua Oppenheimer
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Country: Denmark, United Kingdom, Norway
Year: 2012
Genres: Crime / Historical / Documentary /
Runtime: 115 min.
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When the government of Indonesia was overthrown by the military in 1965, Anwar and his friends were promoted from small-time gangsters who sold movie theatre tickets on the black market to death squad leaders. They helped the army kill more than one million alleged communists, ethnic Chinese, and intellectuals in less than a year. As the executioner for the most notorious death squad in his city, Anwar himself killed hundreds of people with his own hands. Today, Anwar is revered as a founding father of a right-wing paramilitary organization that grew out of the death squads. The organization is so powerful that its leaders include government ministers, and they are happy to boast about everything from corruption and election rigging to acts of genocide.

 



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Subjects: English language / Citizenship (Sixth Form College) / Contemporary world / Audiovisual culture. Cinema. Television. Photography / Performing arts, Music and Dance / History /

Topics: culture of peace, violence, political and armed conflicts. / biographies, autobiographies / human relations, psychology, sociology / human rights / death and grief / politics, political systems /

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