The Act of Killing
Former Indonesian death-squad leaders cheerfully re-enact their mass killings for the camera.
- Type
- Film
- Released
- 2012
- Director
- Joshua Oppenheimer
- Length
- 115 min · One sitting
- Critics' average
- 89/100 across 4 published scores
Genres
Documentary · Holocaust & genocide · Social & political documentary
What it feels like
War & its human cost · Power, empire & religion · Duty, restraint & regret · Unsettling / disturbing · Bleak
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