--- title: 'The Act of Killing (2012)' type: 'film' director: 'Joshua Oppenheimer' released: '2012-08-31' runtime_minutes: 159 genres: - 'Documentary' countries: - 'United Kingdom' - 'Denmark' - 'Norway' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-act-of-killing-2012' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2375605/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # The Act of Killing (2012) 2012 · 159 min · Documentary · United Kingdom, Denmark, Norway Part of: BBC's 100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century ## Synopsis The Act of Killing is a 2012 documentary film directed by Joshua Oppenheimer, with Christine Cynn and an anonymous Indonesian co-directing. The film follows individuals who participated in the Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66, wherein alleged communists and people opposed to the New Order regime were tortured and killed, with the killers, many becoming gangsters, still in power throughout the country. The film was mostly filmed in Medan, North Sumatra, following the executioner Anwar Congo and his acquaintances as they, upon Oppenheimer's request, re-enact their killings and talk about their actions openly, also following Congo's psychological journey facing the topic. ## Credits - **Director:** [Joshua Oppenheimer](https://cinepixo.com/people/joshua-oppenheimer-2), [Christine Cynn](https://cinepixo.com/people/christine-cynn) - **Producer:** [Signe Byrge Sørensen](https://cinepixo.com/people/signe-byrge-s-rensen) - **Director of Photography:** [Lars Skree](https://cinepixo.com/people/lars-skree) - **Editor:** [Janus Billeskov Jansen](https://cinepixo.com/people/janus-billeskov-jansen), [Niels Pagh Andersen](https://cinepixo.com/people/niels-pagh-andersen), [Charlotte Munch Bengtsen](https://cinepixo.com/people/charlotte-munch-bengtsen) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Official site: http://theactofkilling.com Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-act-of-killing-2012 Film facts: Wikidata (Q7712287); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.