The Exile

Documentary | 2024-02-01 | Indonesia

8.7 / 10

120 min.

Indonesia is my homeland. I was born there. I'd do everything to defend it. But they exiled me out of my own country.

During the 1965 mass killings to eliminate the Indonesian Communist Party, the new regime banned scholars in the Soviet Union and China, forcing them into exile across Europe. This documentary follows those displaced individuals as they navigate the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Sweden, Germany, and Indonesia, reflecting on the traumatic events that uprooted their lives.