The Act of Killing
L'acte de tuer (v.o. indonésien, s.-t.f.)
- Release Date: July 19, 2013 (limited)
- Genre: Documentary
- Director: Joshua Oppenheimer
- Producer(s): Signe Byrge Sørensen, Joram ten Brink, Anne Köhncke, Michael Uwemedimo, Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn
- Studio: Drafthouse Films
- Length: 2h 02m
- Official Site: actofkilling.com
Synopsis
In this chilling and inventive documentary, executive produced by Errol Morris (The Fog of War) and Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man), the filmmakers examine a country where death squad leaders are celebrated as heroes, challenging them to reenact their real-life mass-killings in the style of the American movies they love. The hallucinatory result is a cinematic fever dream, an unsettling journey deep into the imaginations of mass-murderers and the shockingly banal regime of corruption and impunity they inhabit.