Bukit Kepong (1981)

Directed by

Jins Shamsuddin

Genre

war film

Country

Malaysia

Runtime

1h 50m

Rating

8.5 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film dramatizes a 1950 clash between police and communist guerrillas at a remote Malaysian police station. It focuses on the officers and their families as they defend their post during a nightlong siege.

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What happens

Bukit Kepong (English: Kepong Hill) is a 1981 Malaysian Malay-language war film produced and directed by Jins Shamsuddin starring himself, A. Rahim and Hussein Abu Hassan. The film was based on the Bukit Kepong incident in 1950. The film has won eight awards in the third Malaysia Film Festival in 1982, including Best Film. In 2014, the film was re-edited by United Studios (a distributing and marketing company of KRU International), which had invested MYR 100,000 in restoring and improvement for high definition (HD) display resolution of the original film. It was reproduced in HD version; as Bukit Kepong Versi Digital HD a year later. For this restoration, the movie was cropped to 16/9 instead of its original academy ratio and electronic stereo widening has replaced the original mono soundtrack, thus distorting the director’s original vision. The technical works was done by Prodigital Lab (owned by KRU Malaysia). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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