The Look of Silence
Feature length film Completed 2015
co-producer: ZDF/Arte
Sabine Bubeck-Paaz
associate producer
Heidi Elise Christensen
associate producer
Joram Ten Brink
co-producer: NRK
Tore Tomter
co-producer
Bjarte Mørner Tveit
co-producer: YLE
Iikka Vehkalahti
co-producer: VPRO
Nathalie Windhorst
Music
Seri Banang
Music
Mana Tahan
Cinematography
Lars Skree
Editor
Nils Pagh Andersen
production manager
Heidi Elise
associate producer
Maria Kristensen
associate producer
Anne Köhncke
co-producer: DR K
Flemming Hedegaard Larsen
executive producer
André Singer
producer
Signe Byrge Sørensen
co-producer
Torstein Grude
production manager
Maria Kristensen
sound
Henrik Garnov
foley artist
Martin Lind
motion graphics artist
Emil Thorbjørnsson
assistant colorist (as Joakim Hauge)
Joakim Hauge Vocke
Camera and Electrical Department
Christine Cynn
lyrics
Sakti Alamsyah
co-producer
Kaarle Aho
executive producer
Werner Herzog
Director
Joshua Oppenheimer
Doc Society helped with
Production
Runtime: 103 minutes
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Through the filmmaker’s work filming perpetrators of the 1965-66 Indonesian genocide, a family of survivors discovers how their son was murdered – and the identity of the men who killed him. The family’s youngest son asks how he can raise his children in a society where survivors are terrorized into silence, and everybody is terrorized into treating the murderers as heroes. In search of answers, he decides to confront each of the surviving killers involved with his brother’s murder. And thus begins, though cinema, an unprecedented dialogue.
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Crew
Joshua Oppenheimer
Director
Director: Joshua Oppenheimer
Co-director: Anonymous
Producer: Signe Byrge Sørensen
Executive producers: Errol Morris, Werner Herzog & André Singer
Editor: Niels Pagh Andersen
Cinematographer: Lars Skree, DFF
Sound: Henrik Gugge Garnov
Production Company: Final Cut for Real, Denmark
These two films, The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence, are a really unmissable pairing.
The Atlantic
June 11, 2015
In a way, I wish I'd never seen "The Look of Silence," because now I won't be able to forget it. But that's the point ...
Wall Street Journal
July 23, 2015
The film does not stab as deeply at the schizoid moral hypocrisy of the perpetrators of the Indonesian genocide as its peerless predecessor, but offers a poignant, upsetting meditation on the legacy of those killings.
The Playlist
Aug. 27, 2014
Mr. Rukun is a quiet man, contemplating his family's tragedy more in sorrow than in anger. But this atmosphere has the effect of making the violence at the film's heart all the more shocking.
New York Times
July 16, 2015
The Look of Silence couldn't possibly equal its predecessor, but it's still a wrenching and unforgettable experience.
Chicago Reader
Aug. 13, 2015
In contrast to the sometimes lurid tenor of The Act of Killing, and despite the extremity of its own content, Oppenheimer's follow-up has a calm, contemplative tone.
Film Comment Magazine
July 24, 2015
The stories the perpetrators tell are hideous, but Adi proves to be a calm and unrelenting interrogator, even in the face of direct death threats.
Globe and Mail
July 24, 2015
"The Look of Silence" is a simpler work than "The Act of Killing," and a better one.
The New Yorker
July 20, 2015
It could crawl under your skin. It could crawl into your soul, you almost feel, and lay eggs.
Financial Times
June 11, 2015
