Directing
Sjuman Djaya
Born August 5, 1934 · Jakarta, Indonesia
Died July 19, 1985 · aged 50
Sjuman Djaya was an Indonesian director, screenwriter, and actor. During his career he wrote numerous films, directed fourteen, acted in ten, and produced nine; he also won five Citra Awards from the Indonesian Film Festival. (From Wikipedia)
Known For
Mama · 1972Mama
1972
MovieDrama
Legendary directors Wim Umboh and Sjumandjaja, decided to experiment by producing a script being written at the same time of the shooting. Mama is a complex story with two seemingly unrelated narrative threads. The first story revolves around Sanca and Anani. The second is about Ulli and Pandji, and in between the two stories is a third narrative, about Ulla, a religious prostitute and Ulli’s sister, and Suwaka.
Darah Muda · 1977Darah Muda
1977
MovieActionMusic
Rhoma and Ricky not only have a different taste in music but also differ in the way they live. Rhoma tries to promote Dangdut music and has a religious life, while Ricky likes rock and has a reckless and free lifestyle. Ricky, who is also a good boxer, joins the group, Apache, and becomes the lead. He becomes angry when he hears that Rhoma’s music group has a successful performance in Jakarta. Ani, who was a singer in the Apache group, starts to change. She prefers Rhoma and is getting tired of all the drinking and drunkenness. Rhoma and Ani start dating and get engaged. Conflict between the two groups becomes heated. Rhoma is tortured and his hand crushed so he cannot play guitar anymore. Wounded, Rhoma goes to a teacher in a secluded village. Here, his wound is healed and he is taught martial arts. After returning from the village, he finds that Ricky is raping Ani. So a final fight ensues, and this time it is Rhoma’s turn to crush Ricky’s hand.
Bukan Sandiwara · 1980Bukan Sandiwara
★ 7.01980
MovieDrama
Unable to conceive, an Indonesian couple attempt artificial insemination but are given Japanese sperm. The result angers the father, who has a hard time accepting the baby as his own.
Blind Virgin · 1971Blind Virgin
1971
MovieActionDrama
Oni is an orphan who is born blind. She is adopted by a cart puller. Despite of his blindness, Oni can cure diseases. So when her adopting parent dies, someone else takes care of her. But ever since her village is pillaged Oni lives on as a wanderer.
Fatima · 1983Fatima
1983
MovieDrama
To save her daughter, Fatima agrees to be sent to Malaya to work as a sex slave for Japanese soldiers. There, she joins with the resistance to help destroy a Japanese base, but finds herself taken prisoner and turned into a sex slave a second time after being captured by Dutch Indies officers.
The Hunchback · 1972The Hunchback
1972
Movie
A man is murdered, his wife is kidnapped and their young son is thrown into a ravine. The child grows up with a deformity and is known around the village as Si Bongkok ("The Hunchback"). After receiving martial arts training, he seeks revenge on the man who killed his father.
Mamad · 1973Mamad
★ 6.01973
MovieComedyDrama
Office clerk Mamad breaks his ethics and steals a pack of paper from his office while preparing for his seventh child’s birth. Haunted by guilt, an opportunity to confess seems to always elude him.
Si Doel Anak Betawi · 1972Si Doel Anak Betawi
★ 8.01972
Movie
Doel, a child growing up in a Betawi society, who is trying to break the pragmatism of the society that considers the Betawi people to be conservative by getting as high an education as possible. After his father's death in an accident, he and his mother becomes a seller to survive.
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