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Act of Killing
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Act of Killing
Date
2012
Description
Creator of the image: Joshua Oppenheimer (film director)
Date of the image creation: 2012
Medium: Documentary film
Person depicted: Anwar Congo
This still-frame was taken from the film 'The Act Of Killing', a devastating documentary. Descriptions such as ‘powerful and provocative’ do not go far enough to capture its macabre, grotesque, all-together-too-human portrait of evil. This documentary features a number of alleged war criminals who participated in the massacres that ravaged Indonesia after the US-supported right-wing military dictator Suharto overthrew the democratically elected, non-aligned Sukarno and proceeded to have an estimated million people slaughtered between 1965 and 1966.
This frame shows Anwar Congo, an Indonesian gangster who became a death-squad leader after the coup. In this scene, Congo, who is said to have personally killed more than 1,000 people, reflects on this period of his life and its aftermath to the utterly unapologetic Adi Zulkadry, a fellow death-squad member.
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