Sjuman Djaya

Directing

Sjuman Djaya

Born — Died

1934-08-05 — 1985-07-19

Place of birth

Jakarta, Indonesia

Known for

Directing

Credits

48 titles

Sjuman Djaya was an Indonesian director, screenwriter, and actor. During his career he wrote numerous films, directed fourteen, acted in ten, and produced nine; he also won five Citra Awards from the Indonesian Film Festival. (From Wikipedia)

Known for

Bukan Sandiwara poster
7.0

Unable to conceive, an Indonesian couple attempt artificial insemination but are given Japanese sperm. The result angers the father, who has a hard time accepting the baby as his own.

Bukan Sandiwara

1980

Mama poster
NR

Legendary directors Wim Umboh and Sjumandjaja, decided to experiment by producing a script being written at the same time of the shooting. Mama is a complex story with two seemingly unrelated narrative threads. The first story revolves around Sanca and Anani. The second is about Ulli and Pandji, and in between the two stories is a third narrative, about Ulla, a religious prostitute and Ulli’s sister, and Suwaka.

Mama

1972

The Hunchback poster
NR

A man is murdered, his wife is kidnapped and their young son is thrown into a ravine. The child grows up with a deformity and is known around the village as Si Bongkok ("The Hunchback"). After receiving martial arts training, he seeks revenge on the man who killed his father.

The Hunchback

1972

Mamad poster
6.0

Office clerk Mamad breaks his ethics and steals a pack of paper from his office while preparing for his seventh child’s birth. Haunted by guilt, an opportunity to confess seems to always elude him.

Mamad

1973

Fatima poster
NR

To save her daughter, Fatima agrees to be sent to Malaya to work as a sex slave for Japanese soldiers. There, she joins with the resistance to help destroy a Japanese base, but finds herself taken prisoner and turned into a sex slave a second time after being captured by Dutch Indies officers.

Fatima

1983

Si Doel Anak Betawi poster
8.0

Doel, a child growing up in a Betawi society, who is trying to break the pragmatism of the society that considers the Betawi people to be conservative by getting as high an education as possible. After his father's death in an accident, he and his mother becomes a seller to survive.

Si Doel Anak Betawi

1972

Film credits

1970s · 7 titles

The Hunchback poster
NR

A man is murdered, his wife is kidnapped and their young son is thrown into a ravine. The child grows up with a deformity and is known around the village as Si Bongkok ("The Hunchback"). After receiving martial arts training, he seeks revenge on the man who killed his father.

The Hunchback

1972

Si Doel Anak Betawi poster
8.0

Doel, a child growing up in a Betawi society, who is trying to break the pragmatism of the society that considers the Betawi people to be conservative by getting as high an education as possible. After his father's death in an accident, he and his mother becomes a seller to survive.

Si Doel Anak Betawi

1972

Young, in Love poster
9.0

A rare film that was censored for many years, the story featured protesting university students in the process of self-discovery.

Young, in Love

1977

Blind Virgin poster
NR

Oni is an orphan who is born blind. She is adopted by a cart puller. Despite of his blindness, Oni can cure diseases. So when her adopting parent dies, someone else takes care of her. But ever since her village is pillaged Oni lives on as a wanderer.

Blind Virgin

1971

No artwork available
NR

Jacky is a sailor. When his ship stopped at a port, he went with his friends to a nightclub. At this place, Jacky met Urmila, one of the singers at the entertainment venue. They fell in love, but then it was interrupted because Jacky asked a lot about Urmila's past. During a voyage, Jacky's ship was hit by a disaster which resulted in Jacky suffering from a disabled leg. His disability makes him inferior to regain Urmila's love.

Ombaknya Laut Mabuknya Cinta

1978

Those Who Fall at Men’s Feet poster
NR

Parmin is always rejected by his wife, Sinta, when he wants to have sex. Sinta was traumatized by her half-sister and stepfather, so she married Parmin to cover up her pregnancy. Sinta falls into a lesbian relationship with Sumiyati, who is a lesbian because all her sisters are women, and her relationships with men are strictly monitored by her parents. Sumiyati already has another girlfriend, Novita, a wife who has a husband with another sexual disorder: sadism. Sumiyati was "raped" by her sister-in-law, and started to have feelings for men, especially when she also played with Parmin, instead of introducing Sinta to Novita. Sum also then falls in love with young man Arman. Sinta-Novita's relationship didn't last long, because her husband, who was abroad, returned home. Sinta speeds off using Novita's gift car and dies.

Those Who Fall at Men’s Feet

1971

No artwork available
NR

Lono is a thief who steals from the corrupt on behalf of the poor.

Past Midnight

1971

Behind the camera

Bukan Sandiwara poster
7.0

Unable to conceive, an Indonesian couple attempt artificial insemination but are given Japanese sperm. The result angers the father, who has a hard time accepting the baby as his own.

Bukan Sandiwara

1980

Bukan Sandiwara poster
7.0

Unable to conceive, an Indonesian couple attempt artificial insemination but are given Japanese sperm. The result angers the father, who has a hard time accepting the baby as his own.

Bukan Sandiwara

1980

Mama poster
NR

Legendary directors Wim Umboh and Sjumandjaja, decided to experiment by producing a script being written at the same time of the shooting. Mama is a complex story with two seemingly unrelated narrative threads. The first story revolves around Sanca and Anani. The second is about Ulli and Pandji, and in between the two stories is a third narrative, about Ulla, a religious prostitute and Ulli’s sister, and Suwaka.

Mama

1972

The Hunchback poster
NR

A man is murdered, his wife is kidnapped and their young son is thrown into a ravine. The child grows up with a deformity and is known around the village as Si Bongkok ("The Hunchback"). After receiving martial arts training, he seeks revenge on the man who killed his father.

The Hunchback

1972

Mamad poster
6.0

Office clerk Mamad breaks his ethics and steals a pack of paper from his office while preparing for his seventh child’s birth. Haunted by guilt, an opportunity to confess seems to always elude him.

Mamad

1973

Mamad poster
6.0

Office clerk Mamad breaks his ethics and steals a pack of paper from his office while preparing for his seventh child’s birth. Haunted by guilt, an opportunity to confess seems to always elude him.

Mamad

1973

Mamad poster
6.0

Office clerk Mamad breaks his ethics and steals a pack of paper from his office while preparing for his seventh child’s birth. Haunted by guilt, an opportunity to confess seems to always elude him.

Mamad

1973

Fatima poster
NR

To save her daughter, Fatima agrees to be sent to Malaya to work as a sex slave for Japanese soldiers. There, she joins with the resistance to help destroy a Japanese base, but finds herself taken prisoner and turned into a sex slave a second time after being captured by Dutch Indies officers.

Fatima

1983

Fatima poster
NR

To save her daughter, Fatima agrees to be sent to Malaya to work as a sex slave for Japanese soldiers. There, she joins with the resistance to help destroy a Japanese base, but finds herself taken prisoner and turned into a sex slave a second time after being captured by Dutch Indies officers.

Fatima

1983

Si Doel Anak Betawi poster
8.0

Doel, a child growing up in a Betawi society, who is trying to break the pragmatism of the society that considers the Betawi people to be conservative by getting as high an education as possible. After his father's death in an accident, he and his mother becomes a seller to survive.

Si Doel Anak Betawi

1972

Si Doel Anak Betawi poster
8.0

Doel, a child growing up in a Betawi society, who is trying to break the pragmatism of the society that considers the Betawi people to be conservative by getting as high an education as possible. After his father's death in an accident, he and his mother becomes a seller to survive.

Si Doel Anak Betawi

1972

Si Doel Anak Betawi poster
8.0

Doel, a child growing up in a Betawi society, who is trying to break the pragmatism of the society that considers the Betawi people to be conservative by getting as high an education as possible. After his father's death in an accident, he and his mother becomes a seller to survive.

Si Doel Anak Betawi

1972

Young, in Love poster
9.0

A rare film that was censored for many years, the story featured protesting university students in the process of self-discovery.

Young, in Love

1977

Young, in Love poster
9.0

A rare film that was censored for many years, the story featured protesting university students in the process of self-discovery.

Young, in Love

1977

December Game poster
NR

Anton accidentally stumbles upon a girl being raped. He attempts to intervene, but when the rapist manages to escape, Anton finds himself a fugitive wanted by the police. While on the run, poor visibility and heavy rain cause Anton to crash his car into a truck. At the hospital, he meets a beautiful nurse named Yosi. Although Anton is eventually cleared of the charges and hopes to pursue a romance with Yosi, he discovers that she has become a nun. Following the accident, Yosi has become emotionally withdrawn, while Anton grows increasingly reckless.

December Game

1980

December Game poster
NR

Anton accidentally stumbles upon a girl being raped. He attempts to intervene, but when the rapist manages to escape, Anton finds himself a fugitive wanted by the police. While on the run, poor visibility and heavy rain cause Anton to crash his car into a truck. At the hospital, he meets a beautiful nurse named Yosi. Although Anton is eventually cleared of the charges and hopes to pursue a romance with Yosi, he discovers that she has become a nun. Following the accident, Yosi has become emotionally withdrawn, while Anton grows increasingly reckless.

December Game

1980

Darah Muda poster
NR

Rhoma and Ricky not only have a different taste in music but also differ in the way they live. Rhoma tries to promote Dangdut music and has a religious life, while Ricky likes rock and has a reckless and free lifestyle. Ricky, who is also a good boxer, joins the group, Apache, and becomes the lead. He becomes angry when he hears that Rhoma’s music group has a successful performance in Jakarta. Ani, who was a singer in the Apache group, starts to change. She prefers Rhoma and is getting tired of all the drinking and drunkenness. Rhoma and Ani start dating and get engaged. Conflict between the two groups becomes heated. Rhoma is tortured and his hand crushed so he cannot play guitar anymore. Wounded, Rhoma goes to a teacher in a secluded village. Here, his wound is healed and he is taught martial arts. After returning from the village, he finds that Ricky is raping Ani. So a final fight ensues, and this time it is Rhoma’s turn to crush Ricky’s hand.

Darah Muda

1977

No artwork available
NR

Jacky is a sailor. When his ship stopped at a port, he went with his friends to a nightclub. At this place, Jacky met Urmila, one of the singers at the entertainment venue. They fell in love, but then it was interrupted because Jacky asked a lot about Urmila's past. During a voyage, Jacky's ship was hit by a disaster which resulted in Jacky suffering from a disabled leg. His disability makes him inferior to regain Urmila's love.

Ombaknya Laut Mabuknya Cinta

1978

No artwork available
NR

Jacky is a sailor. When his ship stopped at a port, he went with his friends to a nightclub. At this place, Jacky met Urmila, one of the singers at the entertainment venue. They fell in love, but then it was interrupted because Jacky asked a lot about Urmila's past. During a voyage, Jacky's ship was hit by a disaster which resulted in Jacky suffering from a disabled leg. His disability makes him inferior to regain Urmila's love.

Ombaknya Laut Mabuknya Cinta

1978

R.A. Kartini poster
9.0

The biography of the Indonesian women's emancipatist, R.A. Kartini, based on her letters.

R.A. Kartini

1983

R.A. Kartini poster
9.0

The biography of the Indonesian women's emancipatist, R.A. Kartini, based on her letters.

R.A. Kartini

1983

No artwork available
NR

Icang bin Japrit (Benyamin S)—nicknamed "Si Pincang" (The Lame One) because one of his legs was longer than the other—was a wealthy man in the fishing village. Sabeni (Bung Salim) resolved the issue with his leg by crafting a special shoe. Thanks to this shoe, Icang regained his self-confidence and resolved to propose to Roro Melati (Rima Melati), the daughter of Wiro Senjoyo (Suroto). However, the proposal formalities devolved into a seemingly endless verbal clash, all stemming from a dispute over a "stubborn" fishpond that both parties claimed as their own.

Pinangan

1976

No artwork available
NR

Icang bin Japrit (Benyamin S)—nicknamed "Si Pincang" (The Lame One) because one of his legs was longer than the other—was a wealthy man in the fishing village. Sabeni (Bung Salim) resolved the issue with his leg by crafting a special shoe. Thanks to this shoe, Icang regained his self-confidence and resolved to propose to Roro Melati (Rima Melati), the daughter of Wiro Senjoyo (Suroto). However, the proposal formalities devolved into a seemingly endless verbal clash, all stemming from a dispute over a "stubborn" fishpond that both parties claimed as their own.

Pinangan

1976

No artwork available
NR

Icang bin Japrit (Benyamin S)—nicknamed "Si Pincang" (The Lame One) because one of his legs was longer than the other—was a wealthy man in the fishing village. Sabeni (Bung Salim) resolved the issue with his leg by crafting a special shoe. Thanks to this shoe, Icang regained his self-confidence and resolved to propose to Roro Melati (Rima Melati), the daughter of Wiro Senjoyo (Suroto). However, the proposal formalities devolved into a seemingly endless verbal clash, all stemming from a dispute over a "stubborn" fishpond that both parties claimed as their own.

Pinangan

1976

Those Who Fall at Men’s Feet poster
NR

Parmin is always rejected by his wife, Sinta, when he wants to have sex. Sinta was traumatized by her half-sister and stepfather, so she married Parmin to cover up her pregnancy. Sinta falls into a lesbian relationship with Sumiyati, who is a lesbian because all her sisters are women, and her relationships with men are strictly monitored by her parents. Sumiyati already has another girlfriend, Novita, a wife who has a husband with another sexual disorder: sadism. Sumiyati was "raped" by her sister-in-law, and started to have feelings for men, especially when she also played with Parmin, instead of introducing Sinta to Novita. Sum also then falls in love with young man Arman. Sinta-Novita's relationship didn't last long, because her husband, who was abroad, returned home. Sinta speeds off using Novita's gift car and dies.

Those Who Fall at Men’s Feet

1971

The Moon on the Graveyard poster
NR

Back when urbanization was a new phenomenon, this film captured the aspirations desired by three young men from North Sumatera of Batak ethnicity. As the case with other regional area, people from the rural realm were convinced that their way of live is inadequate, so that they "need" to make it in the city, or bust. So Sabar, Tigor and Sahat went up and down their luck in order to find their desired "gold" in a strange land.

The Moon on the Graveyard

1973

Gitar Tua Oma Irama poster
NR

The wedding plans of Oma and Ani are shattered due to the presence of Ir. Dana in the plantation where Ani’s father works. As her father is ambitious and wants a higher position, he wants Dana to become Ani’s husband. Ani works in the plantation as a secretary and Dana is interested in her but she does not reciprocate. Ami and Oma are having a long-distance relationship and things start to change when Oma does not come on her birthday. So she goes to Jakarta and finds Oma in the middle of persuading his singing partner, Shanty, who is sulking, to finish a recording. Suspicious and jealous, Ani goes straight home and decides to marry Dana. Oma is shocked to receive the invitation. He goes home and the root of the problem is uncovered.

Gitar Tua Oma Irama

1977

No artwork available
NR

Little Nina, oldest daughter of a plantation guard, is rescued by Daniel, a novice priest, from a tiger. As a result, Nina later aspires to be a nun. Meanwhile, the sickly Adri, who is the son of a wealthy businessman, is very much in love with Nina. Nina has to forget her dream when her family becomes poor after her father is accused of corruption, and becomes a drunkard.

Not a Seasonal Dream

1981

Opera Jakarta poster
NR

Intertwined stories of Joko, a boxer, and Rum, the daughter of a general.

Opera Jakarta

1985

Opera Jakarta poster
NR

Intertwined stories of Joko, a boxer, and Rum, the daughter of a general.

Opera Jakarta

1985

No artwork available
NR

Lono is a thief who steals from the corrupt on behalf of the poor.

Past Midnight

1971

No artwork available
NR

Lono is a thief who steals from the corrupt on behalf of the poor.

Past Midnight

1971

Full Moon at Mid-Day poster
NR

Sora has to work really hard to support her family, by giving swimming lessons and being a model, as her husband Sony is unreliable. But with the help of an idealist young lawyer, Singgih, and a loyal friend, Devina, Sora manages to survive.

Full Moon at Mid-Day

1988

No artwork available
NR

Following the trend for dangdut musicals, such as the successful ones starring Rhoma Irama, Elvy Sukaesih, and A. Rafiq, this film even features a lead actor who looks like Rhoma Irama, and the character also uses a similar name. Herry Irama has always wanted to be a singer. He is fired because he is considered undisciplined. His hard luck worsens when his father kicks him out of the house. Then his first effort to apply for a job in a recording company is rejected and he ends up being a gardener in the house of a famous dangdut singer, Diana Yusuf. His dream is starting to come true when Diana Yusuf starts to fall in love with Herry.

Yeah, Right...

1979

Mist of Purple Silk poster
NR

Miranti is left a widow after her pilot husband dies in an accident. She forces herself to work independently, despite feeling alienated. She soon learns that her brother-in-law Dimas cares greatly for her. Miranti ultimately realises that his feelings are more than just pity, and the two can unite.

Mist of Purple Silk

1979

Mist of Purple Silk poster
NR

Miranti is left a widow after her pilot husband dies in an accident. She forces herself to work independently, despite feeling alienated. She soon learns that her brother-in-law Dimas cares greatly for her. Miranti ultimately realises that his feelings are more than just pity, and the two can unite.

Mist of Purple Silk

1979

Mist of Purple Silk poster
NR

Miranti is left a widow after her pilot husband dies in an accident. She forces herself to work independently, despite feeling alienated. She soon learns that her brother-in-law Dimas cares greatly for her. Miranti ultimately realises that his feelings are more than just pity, and the two can unite.

Mist of Purple Silk

1979

Atheis poster
9.0

Adapted from Achdiat Kartamihardja's novel of the same name. It follows a young Muslim man named Hasan who, through his interactions with others, loses his faith.

Atheis

1974

Atheis poster
9.0

Adapted from Achdiat Kartamihardja's novel of the same name. It follows a young Muslim man named Hasan who, through his interactions with others, loses his faith.

Atheis

1974

Atheis poster
9.0

Adapted from Achdiat Kartamihardja's novel of the same name. It follows a young Muslim man named Hasan who, through his interactions with others, loses his faith.

Atheis

1974