The Act of Killing Theatrical Trailer Video

Drafthouse Films has unveiled theatrical trailer for The Act of Killing (2013). This chilling and inventive documentary examines a country where death squad leaders are celebrated as heroes, challenging them to reenact their real-life mass-killings in the style of the American movies they love.

When the Indonesian government was overthrown in 1965, small-time gangster Anwar Congo and his friends went from selling movie tickets on the black market to leading anti-communist death squads in the mass murder of over a million people. Anwar boasts of killing hundreds ... ( more ). Watch theatrical trailer now!