France Box Office for The Act of Killing (2013)
Theatrical Performance (US$) | ||
France Box Office | $10,320 | Details |
Worldwide Box Office | $1,227,316 | Details |
Home Market Performance | ||
North America DVD Sales | $1,074,084 | Details |
North America Blu-ray Sales | $334,239 | Details |
Total North America Video Sales | $1,408,323 | |
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Synopsis
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 with his own hands, but he's lived in his country with impunity ever since. When approached to make a film about their role in the genocide, Anwar and his friends eagerly comply-but their idea of being in a movie is not to provide reflective testimony, but to dance their way through musical numbers, twist arms in film noir gangster scenes, and gallop across the prairies as yodeling cowboys. A cinematic fever dream, The Act of Killing presents a gripping conflict between moral imagination and moral catastrophe.
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Movie Details
Production Budget: | $1,000,000 |
France Releases: | April 10th, 2013 (Wide) |
Video Release: | January 7th, 2014 by New Video Group |
MPAA Rating: | Not Rated |
Running Time: | 115 minutes |
Franchise: | The Act of Killing |
Keywords: | Government Corruption, Genocide, War Crimes, Cross-Dressing, Political, Performing Arts |
Source: | Based on Real Life Events |
Genre: | Documentary |
Production Method: | Live Action |
Creative Type: | Factual |
Production/Financing Companies: | Final Cut For Real, Spring Films LTD, Media Programme of the European Union |
Production Countries: | Denmark, Norway, United Kingdom |
Languages: | English |
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Because some of our sources provide box office data in their local currency, while we use USD in the graph above and table below, exchange rate fluctuations can have effect on the data causing stronger increases or even decreases of the cumulative box office.
Weekend Box Office Performance
Date | Rank | Gross | % Change | Screens | Per Screen | Total Gross | Week |
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2013/04/12 | 9 | $10,320 | 3 | $3,440 | $10,320 | 1 |
Box Office Summary Per Territory
Territory | Release Date |
Opening Weekend |
Opening Weekend Screens |
Maximum Screens |
Theatrical Engagements |
Total Box Office |
Report Date |
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France | 4/10/2013 | $10,320 | 3 | 3 | 3 | $10,320 | 12/14/2015 |
Germany | 11/14/2013 | $0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | $440 | 10/20/2015 |
North America | 7/19/2013 | $27,450 | 1 | 29 | 217 | $486,919 | 2/27/2019 |
South Korea | 11/20/2014 | $0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | $54,826 | 8/2/2023 |
Thailand | 2/11/2016 | $2,107 | 2 | 2 | 3 | $3,610 | 6/9/2016 |
Rest of World | $671,201 | ||||||
Worldwide Total | $1,227,316 | 8/2/2023 |
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Documentary Subject(s)
Anwar Congo | Himself |
Herman Koto | Himself |
Ibrahim Sinik | Himself |
Sakhyan Asmara | Himself |
Adi Zulkadry | Himself |
Safit Pardede | Himself |
For a description of the different acting role types we use to categorize acting perfomances, see our Glossary.
Production and Technical Credits
Joshua Oppenheimer | Director |
Signe Byrge Sorensen | Producer |
Jorem ten Brink | Producer |
Anne Kohncke | Producer |
Michael Uwemedimo | Producer |
Joshua Oppenheimer | Producer |
Christine Cynn | Producer |
Werner Herzog | Executive Producer |
Errol Morris | Executive Producer |
Niels Pagh Andersen | Editor |
Janus Billeskov Jansen | Editor |
Mariko Montpetit | Editor |
Charlotte Munch Bengtsen | Editor |
Ariadna Fatjo-Vilas Mestre | Editor |
Elin Oyen Vister | Composer |
Carlos Mariano Arango de Montis | Director of Photography |