The Act of Killing

The Act of Killing is a documentary by American director Joshua Oppenheimer from 2012. Executive producers have included Werner Herzog and Errol Morris.

Content

The film deals with the massacre in Indonesia from 1965 to 1966. Therefore, the former offender who brag unmolested to this day in public with their deeds, asked mimic their actions as movie scenes.

Reviews

" The Act of Killing ' [ takes ] a to the batch process of realization, he accompanied an ambivalent and is the only appropriate attitude. On the one hand shows the potential of the game, the re-enactments, ultimately: the cinema, historical events an immediacy to give a concrete presence that make them sensual and present experience and develop this strategy new ways of dealing with them. On the other hand, the possibility remains exist, they grasp their historical truth in defiance than mere play material - Anwar Congo sees himself, later, with his grandchildren together on the record of his played torture, and between flashing moments of recognition and perhaps even a form of repentance is always to sense of pride in one's own misdeeds that perhaps characterizes the terrifying impressions of this vast film that form. "

Awards (selection)

• Best Documentary

• Best Documentary

• Panorama Audience Award for Best Documentary
• Prize of the Ecumenical Jury for the best film of the Panorama section

More Awards

• Robert
• Bodil
• CPH: DOX
• Festival de Cinéma Valenciennes
• Documenta Madrid 2013
• Beldocs
• Ficunam