Terang Boelan
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Terang Boelan |
| Country of production | Dutch East Indies |
| original language | Indonesian |
| Publishing year | 1937 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Albert Balink |
| script | Saroen |
| music | Ismail Marzuki |
| camera | Joshua Wong, Othniel Wong |
| occupation | |
Terang Boelan ( Indonesian Terang bulan [ təˈraŋ buˈlan ], German 'moonlight' ) is an Indonesian film by director Albert Balink from 1937 .
The film has been considered lost since the 1970s .
background
The production of the film, made in 1937, triggered an initial boom in the Indonesian film industry. It is a cooperation between the Dutch director Albert Balink, the Wong brothers, who were responsible for the film technology, and the journalist Saroen, who wrote the screenplay. It clarifies the basic pattern of the Indonesian entertainment film genre and is based on the Hollywood production The Jungle Princess, which appeared in the previous year . This takes place in the jungle of Malaysia. In addition, elements from different genres such as musicals or melodramas, but also action-packed fight scenes were used in the film. It was from this production that the first actors called film stars, such as the leading actress Nji Roekiah, who was also known as a singer and stage actress, come from. The female lead is similar to the male counterpart in the Tarzan films. The film is accompanied by Kronkong melodies, which contributed to its success. The film was shown for the first time on December 8, 1937 in the Rex Theater in the capital Batavia in front of a sold out house.
literature
- Tan & Wong Bros .: Terang bulan (= Roman lajar putih. ) Gapura, Djakarta 1951, OCLC 67433306 .
- William van der Heide: Terang Boelan. In: Malaysian Cinema, Asian Film. Border Crossings and National Culture. Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam 2002, ISBN 0-585-49815-6 , p. 128.
- Krishna Sen, Karl G. Heider: The Dutch colonial period. In: Indonesian Cinema. National Culture on Screen. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu 1991, ISBN 0-8248-1349-9 , pp. 15/16.
Web links
- Terang Boelan in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Salim Said, John H. McGlynn, Karl G. Heider: Cinema of Indonesia: Eleven Indonesian Films, Notes & Synopses. (= Aspects of Indonesian culture. ) Festival of Indonesia Foundation, New York 1991, ISBN 978-1-879578-00-5 .
- ↑ Stefanie Furch: Social Transformation Processes in New Indonesian Cinema (PDF, p. 41.)
- ^ William H. Frederick: Rhoma Irama and the Dangdut Style: Aspects of Contemporary Indonesian Popular Culture . In: Indonesia . tape 34 , October 1982, ISSN 0019-7289 , p. 102–130 , here p. 106 , doi : 10.2307 / 3350952 , JSTOR : 3350952 (English, ecommons.cornell.edu [PDF; 2.2 MB ]).
- ↑ Terang Boelan on kranten.delpher.nl