2014

1h 40m

7.8(290 votes)

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Overview

An optician grapples with the Indonesian mass killings of 1965-1966, during which his older brother was exterminated.

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8 members

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Adi Rukun

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M.Y. Basrun

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Amir Hasan

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Kemat

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Joshua Oppenheimer

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Amir Siahaan

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Ted Yates

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