The Look of Silence
Nov 13 2014
•2h 40m
•History, Documentary
An optician grapples with the Indonesian mass killings of 1965-1966, during which his older brother was exterminated.
Cast
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Adi Rukun
Self
M.Y. Basrun
Self
Amir Hasan
Self (archive footage)
Inong
Self
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