Panggilan Darah

Panggilan Darah
A black-and-white advertisement
Magazine advertisement, De Orient
Directed bySutan Usman Karim
Screenplay bySutan Usman Karim
Produced byTjho Seng Han
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Production
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Release date
  • 30 June 1941 (1941-06-30) (Dutch East Indies)
CountryDutch East Indies
LanguageIndonesian

Panggilan Darah (Indonesian for Call of Blood) is a 1941 film from the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) written and directed by Sutan Usman Karim and produced by Tjho Seng Han for Oriental Film. The black-and-white film starred Dhalia and Soerip as orphaned sisters trying to make a living in the colonial capital of Batavia (now Jakarta) before moving to Kudus to work at a clove cigarette factory.

Shot on location at an orphanage and two factories in central Java, Panggilan Darah was a modest commercial success in the Indies and Singapore. Its soundtrack, which featured nine kroncong songs, received popular acclaim, and the film's acting received critical praise. Despite this success, Oriental was unable to recoup its expenses, and merged into Multi Film soon afterwards. Panggilan Darah, which was screened as late as 1952, may now be lost.


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