Gagak Item is a 1939 black-and-white film from the Dutch East Indies. Starring Rd Mochtar, Roekiah, and Eddy T. Effendi, it follows a masked man known only as ‘Gagk Item’ The film was a commercial success and received positive reviews upon release.
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Gagak Item is a 1939 black-and-white film from the Dutch East Indies. Starring Rd Mochtar, Roekiah, and Eddy T. Effendi, it follows a masked man known only as \”Gagk Item\” The film was a commercial success and received positive reviews upon release. It is likely lost after being shot using highly flammable nitrate and destroyed after the Japanese occupation in early 1942. The film had six songs performed by Hugo Dumas’ musical troupe Lief Java; the troupe was known for its keroncong performances, mixing traditional music with Portuguese influences.
It was released in late 1939 and was screened in Batavia, the capital of the Indies; Medan, North Sumatra; and Surabaya, eastern Java. A novelisation of the film was published by the Yogyakarta-based Kolff-Buning.
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