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The History of Indonesian Cinema from 1927 to the Present Day |
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| 1926 | ||||
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– Leotoeng Kasaroeng (The Enchanted Monkey), the country’s first film is released. It is directed by L. Heuveldorp and G. Kruger. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Films of Note |
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| 1950 | ||||
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Darah dan Doa (Usmar Ismail) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1968 | ||||
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– The National Film Production Council (DPFN) is established to encourage work of high quality. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Rembulan dan Matahari (The Moon and the Sun) (Slamet Rahardjo) [MORE] [ADD} |
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Indonesia bans Robert Connolly’s Balibo, a politically sensitive film about the Balibo Five, a group of Australia-based reporters murdered by Indonesian soldiers in the East Timorese town of Balibo in 1975. [MORE] |
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| 2011 | ||||
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The MPAA and European distributors threaten to halt the distribution of their films to Indonesia in response to the Government’s attempt to introduce a new tax on foreign-made films. [ADD} |
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| 12/5 - | The Indonesian Cinema Companies Union (GPBSI) reveals that local box office has collapsed by 60% since the US Motion Picture Association stopped exporting films there in protest at the imposition of a new tax on foreign-made films. No new films have been exported to Indonesia since mid-February. [ADD} | |||