Usmar Ismail

Usmar Ismail was born on 20 March 1921 in Bukittinggi, into a Minangkabau family. Under the Japanese occupation, he led an amateur theatre troupe, then served in the Republican army in Yogyakarta while running a newspaper; the Dutch imprisoned him in 1948, while he was covering negotiations in Jakarta. He founded the company Perfini in 1950, which he ran until his death, and studied cinema at the University of California, Los Angeles. He died in Jakarta on 2 January 1971; he is called in his country the father of Indonesian cinema.

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• CinemaThe Long MarchDarah dan DoaUsmar Ismail · 1950Cinema