Si Ronda (1930)
- Directed by
- Lie Tek Swie
- Genre
- silent film, martial arts film
- Country
- Dutch East Indies
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
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How it feels
A silent film from the Dutch East Indies based on Betawi folklore. It follows a bandit named Si Ronda who is skilled in silat martial arts and is sometimes seen as a Robin Hood figure.
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What happens
Si Ronda is a 1930 silent film from the Dutch East Indies which was directed by Lie Tek Swie and starred Bachtiar Effendi. Based on contemporary Betawi oral tradition, it follows the exploits of a bandit, skilled in silat (traditional Malay martial arts), known as Si Ronda. In the lenong stories from which the film was derived, Ronda was often depicted as a Robin Hood type of figure. The production, now thought lost, was one of a series of martial arts films released between 1929 and 1931. Si Ronda received little coverage in the media upon its release. A second adaptation of the tale, Si Ronda Macan Betawi, was made in 1978. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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