Pareh, een rijstlied van Java
Albert Balink, Mannus Franken / NL, 1936 / 75 min.
Romeo and Juliet story about the impossible love between fishing boy Machmoed and village girl Wagini. Albert Balink and Mannus Franken were commissioned to make this Sundanese spoken film for the Centrale Commissie voor Emigratie en Kolonisatie van Inheemschen.
The course of this lovers’ drama full of guile and deceit is determined by supernatural powers as, according to tradition villagers are prohibited from marrying fishermen. The theft of the village’s holy kris from the headman Loerah Toroeno sets off a chain of fateful events.
New 35mm print from the Eye collection.
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Director
Albert Balink, Mannus Franken
Production year
1936
Country
NL
Original title
Pareh, een rijstlied van Java
Length
75 min.
Subtitles
NLD
Format
35mm
Part of
Eye(s) Open
In the exhibition Eye(s) Open, eleven artists respond to Eye’s collection of some 2,000 colonial-era films from formerly occupied regions in Indonesia and Suriname.
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