Panggilan Darah is a 1941 film from the Dutch East Indies. It was written and directed by Sutan Usman Karim and produced by Tjho Seng Han for Oriental Film. The black-and-white film starred Dhalia and Soerip as orphaned sisters.
About Panggilan Darah in brief
Panggilan Darah is a 1941 film from the Dutch East Indies. It was written and directed by Sutan Usman Karim and produced by Tjho Seng Han for Oriental Film. The black-and-white film starred Dhalia and Soerip as orphaned sisters trying to make a living in the colonial capital of Batavia. The soundtrack featured nine kroncong songs, and the film’s acting received critical praise. Despite this success, Oriental was unable to recoup its expenses, and merged into Multi Film soon afterwards. The film, which was screened as late as 1952, may now be lost.
It may have been partly sponsored by Nitisemito, one of the largest cigarette factories in the Indies in the 1940s, based on the factory’s prominence in the plot. It made most of its money from lower class audiences, and was screened in Surabaya, by Itabaya in August, and by Singapore in September. A novelisation of the film was published by the Yogyakarta-based Kolakarta Handerai Anabai Publishers in the year after its release, and praised for its depiction of the Islamic mandate to take care of orphans.
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