The Look Of Silence

 
 
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Release Date: August 28, 2014

Running Time: 103 min

Rating: PG-13

Director: Joshua Oppenheimer

Producer: Signe Byrge Sørensen

Writer: Joshua Oppenheimer

Cast: Adi Rukun

Synopsis: Through Oppenheimer’s footage of perpetrators of the 1965 Indonesian genocide, a family of survivors discovers how their son was murdered, as well as the identities of the killers.  The documentary focuses on the youngest son, an optometrist named Adi, who decides to break the suffocating spell of submission and terror by doing something unimaginable in a society where the murderers remain in power: he confronts the men who killed his brother and, while testing their eyesight, asks them to accept responsibility for their actions.  This unprecedented film initiates and bears witness to the collapse of fifty years of silence.