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Actor
Bachtiar Siagian
Directing
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Movies: 4Series: 0Crew credits: 3
TMDB ID: 2107776
IMDb ID: nm2661592
Known for: Directing
Born: February 19, 1923
Died: March 19, 2002
Age: 79
Place of birth: Binjai, North Sumatra province, Indonesia
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1958 - 2025
Years active: 68
Wikidata: Q12473148
Also known as
Бахтиар Сиагиан
Other jobs
Director (1)Screenplay (1)Writer (1)
Biography
Bachtiar Siagian was arguably the most prominent leftist film maker and theorist during the early years of Indonesia's national cinema. He wrote and directed 13 films from 1955-1965, making him one of the most prolific indigenous Indonesian filmmakers of the era. However, he and his work were targeted by Suharto's anti-communist purge of 1966. He was imprisoned without trial for 12 years and all of his work was destroyed. Only in recent years have prints of some of his films begun to re-emerge.
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