Sorga Ka Toedjoe (1940)

Directed by

Othniel Wong, Joshua Wong

Genre

drama film

Country

Dutch East Indies

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An older couple who have been separated for years are brought back together by a younger couple. The film is a black-and-white musical with kroncong songs made for a native audience.

lightheartedromanticmusicalupbeatnostalgicsentimentalsimplegentle

What happens

Sorga Ka Toedjoe ([ˈsɔrɡa kə ˈtudʒu]; vernacular Malay for Seventh Heaven; also advertised under the Dutch title In Den Zevenden Hemel) is a 1940 film from the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia) directed by Joshua and Othniel Wong for Tan's Film. It follows an older couple (Kartolo and Annie Landouw) who are reunited by another, younger couple (Roekiah and Djoemala) after years of separation. The black-and-white film, the first production by Tan's Film after the departure of Rd Mochtar, featured kroncong music and was targeted at lower-class native audiences. It was a commercial and critical success. Roekiah and Djoemala took leading roles in three more films before Tan's closed in 1942. Sorga Ka Toedjoe is now thought lost. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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