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Nyai: A Woman from Java

Drama | 2016-10-07 | Indonesia

IMDB6.5 / 10

Budget$0

Budget$0

Runtime90 min.

Set in Indonesia's Dutch colonial era, in 1927, a young and beautiful woman lives with her sick and aged Dutch husband. This woman loses her own name and is called Njai, which means a foreigner's concubine, and realizes that she is living in a kind of prison, while she deals with loads of visitors to her residence. Director Garin Nugroho shows in a distinctive way how much effort a woman, deserted both by the colonial country's law and the colonized country's traditional culture, puts in to retain her dignity.

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Garin Workshop
Treewater Productions
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