This is great Film from Director Eros Djaros, his first and last Film. Best photography by George Kamarullah who shoot excotic Jungle panorama of Aceh at Sumatra island. Best Music Score by Idris Sardi. Tjoet Nja' Dhien is great epic from Aceh. Strong woman who fight at 1887-1910 to stop collonialisme of Nederland in Aceh. In the end of her struggle, she is betrayed by her chief army (Panglima Laot). She is arrested by Nederland in the old, sick, and blind condition. To avoid and stop any struggle from her followers, Nederland moved place where she is arrested to Sumedang West Java. She was died and burried in Sumedang.
Plot summary
Set in 1896, Tjoet Nja' Dhien celebrates one of Indonesia's great heroes who fought for independence from the Dutch. The pious Muslim people of Aceh, a city that had flourished since ancient times as a trade port, enter into a fierce war with the Dutch. Tjoet Nja' Dhien, the widow of a rebel leader operating in Aceh in Sumatra, assumes the leadership when her husband Teuku Umar is killed in an ambush. Dhien's charismatic presence and power of survival motivate the locals to join and later continue their opposition to the Dutch. Despite personal obstacles, she remained in the thick of the struggle for ten years.—Anonymous
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Christine Hakim as Tjoet Nja' Dhien
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1280*534
Indonesian 2.0
NR
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Best Indonesian Film I ever seen
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Dutch soldiers in Aceh during the Aceh war
In the Tjoet Nya Dhien film we see indeed a scene where Dutch soldiers pose amidst a large number of dead bodies that were slaughtered by these soldiers. A reader in Australia comments about this scene and wonders whether that scene was just fantasy. The scene was set more or less exactly as shown in a photo that was made by Dutch soldiers after they had slaughtered these villagers. The photo has appeared in many magazines and became the subject of intense debates at the Dutch government in these days. I have seen the photo and beside that I was involved in the preparation of the movie, first to write the Dutch dialogs, then did the casting for those actors who would play a Dutch role. And after that I played myself in the movie, not as Snouck Hurgronje but as Captain VELTMAN, who was the man who "captured" Tjoet Nya.
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Still one of the most powerful Indonesian movie
This movie made Christine Hakim as a living legend in Indonesia, although it has been years away but the movie present one of the best cinematography ever made in Indonesia, support by powerful acting, excellent scene and storyline.
I love this movie very much and saw it while I was kid. But I was knowing only a little to appreciate movie, but I found myself impressed. After several years this movie still in my mind, the scene of Christine Hakim in the jungle showered under the rain and shaking in pain with amazing facial expression I considered as the best scene I ever watched.
9/10