40 Years of Silence: An Indonesian Tragedy (2009)

Directed by

Robert Lemelson

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 26m

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary looks at how the Indonesian mass killings of 1965-1966 affected individual survivors and their families. It focuses on personal stories from people living in Bali and Java.

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What happens

40 Years of Silence: An Indonesian Tragedy is a documentary film by anthropologist Robert Lemelson about the personal effects of the Indonesian mass killings of 1965-1966. The film was shot on the islands of Bali and Java from 2002–2006. The score is a collaboration between the British composer Malcolm Cross and the Balinese musician Nyoman Wenten, and combines Western tonalities and chordal structures with Balinese and Javanese scalar progressions and melodies. The film was released in the United States in 2009, and has had limited screenings throughout Indonesia. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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