65th FESTIVAL DE CANNES (16 - 27 MAY 2012) OFFICIAL SELECTION – CANNES CLASSICS Lewat Djam Malam (After the Curfew) (1954) Kalpana (1948) Contact Info: 110 W. 57th Street, 5th Floor New York, NY 10019, USA www.worldcinemafoundation.org -
[email protected] LEWAT DJAM MALAM (After the Curfew) Written by Usmar ISMAIL, Asrul SANI Director of Photography Max TERA Set Deisgner Abdul CHALID Original Music G.R.W. SINSU Sound B. SALTZMANN Editing SUMARDJONO Production PERSARI, PERFINI Starring A.N. ALCAFF(Iskandar), Netty HERAWATY (Norma), R.D. ISMAIL (Gunawan) Running Time 101’ Year of Production 1954 Country of Production INDONESIA Language INDONESIAN From NATIONAL MUSEUM OF SINGAPORE, WORLD CINEMA FOUNDATION, SINEMATEK INDONESIA Restored in 2012 by the National Museum of Singapore and the World Cinema Foundation, with support from the Konfiden Foundation and Kineforum of the Jakarta Arts Council. The restoration work was conducted by Cineteca di Bologna/L'Immagine Ritrovata Laboratory from original film elements preserved at the Sinematek Indonesia. Special thanks to the Usmar Ismail family. ABOUT THE FILM Lewat Djam Malam (After the Curfew) is a passionate work looking directly at a crucial moment of conflict in Indonesian history: the aftermath of the four-year Republican revolution which brought an end to Dutch rule. This is a visually and dramatically potent film about anger and disillusionment, about the dream of a new society cheapened and misshapen by government repression on the one hand and bourgeois complacency on the other. The film’s director, Usmar Ismail, is generally considered to be the father of Indonesian cinema, and his entire body of work was directly engaged with ongoing evolution of Indonesian society.