Film

Fueled by political anger and disillusionment, this passionate, visually potent work looks directly at a crucial moment of conflict in Indonesian history: the aftermath of the four-year Republican revolution which brought an end to Dutch rule. Generally considered the father of Indonesian cinema, Usmar Ismail enjoyed his greatest critical and commercial success with this heartbreaking tale of a revolutionary hero’s return to civilian life, and his confrontation of a new society cheapened by government repression and bourgeois complacency.