INDO cinema
On this page you will find a selection of movies that have a relationship with Indo history.
Oeroeg
This movie is a free adaptation of a classic historical novel by the well known Dutch totok author Hella Haase. A white Dutch boy and the son of an Indonesian servant grow up together, and through the grinding wheel of time and great shifts of paradigm their paths dramatically diverge and converge.
De stille kracht
The Hidden Force (Dutch: De Stille Kracht) is a 1900 classical novel by the Indo Dutch writer Louis Couperus. The narrative is set on the island of Java in the Dutch East Indies. The book was adapted into a 1974 Dutch TV serial, that was watched by over 7 million people and was quite influential and instrumental in bringing the Dutch East Indies back into Dutch cultural consciousness.
The story is set at the end of the nineteenth century and concerns the cultural gap between East and West, that is between the Netherlands and their colony on Java. The Dutch colonists, who nominally rule Java, realize that the island maintains its own natural order by way of a hidden force, goena goena, a term denoting magic as well as depths of eastern cultures that westerners cannot probe. The original novel contemplated the Dutch people's inability to adapt to the culture and environment of their colony in what is now Indonesia
The story is set at the end of the nineteenth century and concerns the cultural gap between East and West, that is between the Netherlands and their colony on Java. The Dutch colonists, who nominally rule Java, realize that the island maintains its own natural order by way of a hidden force, goena goena, a term denoting magic as well as depths of eastern cultures that westerners cannot probe. The original novel contemplated the Dutch people's inability to adapt to the culture and environment of their colony in what is now Indonesia
Max Havelaar
A movie adaption of perhaps the greatest literary masterpiece of Dutch literature. 'Max Havelaar; or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company' (Dutch: Max Havelaar, of de koffie-veilingen der Nederlandsche Handels-Maatschappy) is an 1860 novel by Multatuli (the pen name of Eduard Douwes Dekker), which played a key role in shaping and modifying Dutch colonial policy in the Dutch East Indies in the nineteenth and early twentieth century and is claimed to have inspired the Indonesian independence movement. In the novel, the protagonist, Max Havelaar, tries to battle against a corrupt government system in colonial Java.