Nico Pelamonia

Acting

Nico Pelamonia

Born — Died

1940-03-16 — 2017-05-15

Place of birth

Ambon, Maluku, Indonesia

Known for

Acting

Credits

25 titles

Nico Pelamonia was an Indonesian film director and actor. Pelamonia attended the Indonesian National Theater Academy (ATNI). He had acting jobs while he was studying at ATNI, and even had a gig as a TV director in TVRI. His earliest work in film was when he acted as an extra in the film Dibalik Awan (1963). In 1965, alongside Harun Rasidi and Tuti Mutia, he created the production company Pertisa Film, which later became Tuti Mutia Film Production. His directorial debut was Sendja Di Djakarta (1967), an adaptation of the Mochtar Lubis novel. Nico won a Citra Award in directing for "Semalam di Malaysia" (1975) at FFI 1976. Pelamonia then left Tuti Mutia Film Production and worked as a freel…

Known for

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Rafiq is a dangdut singer who comes to Jakarta to advance his career. Parto, his friend from the same village tries to represent him to different recording companies. But they differ because of Rafiq’s naivete and Parto’s city-style plus Parto’s insistence on pop music, and Rafiq’s dedication to dangdut. So their conflict is resolved by a music expert and student, Norma, who is researching dangdut music, and who eventually becomes Rafiq’s girlfriend. But the person who manages to get Rafiq a record deal is Lily, whom Rafiq meets when working in a car shop. Finally, Rafiq gains Norma’s hand when her parents approve their relationship.

Karena Dia

1979

Nagabonar poster
7.1

Nagabonar is a pickpocket. During the withdrawal of the Japanese occupying forces from Indonesia in 1945 he declares himself a general of the Liberation Forces. Soon a mask becomes his true self, and he becomes a true soldier and patriot.

Nagabonar

1986

December Game poster
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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 Following the accident, Yosi has become emotionally withdrawn, while Anton grows increasingly reckless.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

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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

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To restore Soraya's spirit of life, her uncle managed to persuade Rafiq, who looks like Husain, Soraya's deceased lover, to pretend. This makes Rafiq's real boyfriend angry and then conspires with Rafiq's best friend to gain profit.

Cantik

1980

Shackled poster
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Eddy, a bank security guard was successfully shackled by Liona, a former prostitute. He divorced his wife, followed Liona's lifestyle, got into debt everywhere until finally robbing bank customers due to being caught in many difficulties.

Shackled

1984

Film credits

1980s · 4 titles

Nagabonar poster
7.1

Nagabonar is a pickpocket. During the withdrawal of the Japanese occupying forces from Indonesia in 1945 he declares himself a general of the Liberation Forces. Soon a mask becomes his true self, and he becomes a true soldier and patriot.

Nagabonar

1986

Musang Berjanggut poster
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The King of Parun becomes angry at his adopted son, Tun Utama, who turns down every princess as his future fiancée. So his Majesty orders Tun Utama to find his own choice of a girl. If that fails, he will be severely punished. Tun Utama then returns with a beautiful princess, Siri Syarifah. The beauty of Siri Syarifah captivates even the King himself. They all try to find a trick to separate them. The King pretends to be sick and can be cured only after eating the liver of a bearded weasel. Tun Utama is assigned to find the animal that doesn’t exist. During the absence of Tun Utama, Siri Syarifah remains faithful. She does not react to the persuasions from the King. When Tun Utama fails to accomplish the mission and would end up beheaded, Syarifah manages to save her lover by bringing the bearded weasel in a trunk, hidden inside is a man, a member of the royal family in the palace of Parun.

Musang Berjanggut

1983

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The film begins with a doctor explaining breast cancer and its detection methods. Then we learn that Kartika must have one of her breasts removed before the cancer spreads. To relieve her grief, she leaves for Switzerland, where she meets Maruli, a newly graduated doctor from Germany who works at a restaurant before going home. A romance occurs that results in marriage, even though his uncle does not agree with it, for the sake of a family tradition. After the marriage, Maruli is disappointed. He feels cheated after learning of Kartika’s breast removal. His mother is furious. He is reminded that his intention to study medicine is to help his mother, who was also left behind by her husband, Maruli's father, after her breast removal. He then returns to his wife, Kartika.

Akibat Kanker Payudara

1987

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Basically a courtroom drama, Sumi is arrested and brought for a trial after her husband, Aditya’s penis is stabbed and he is rendered dysfunctional. Sumi is suffering in her marriage because of her husband's illness. She doesn’t leave him for the sake of her children. However, when she finds that her husband is having an affair with Lena, she loses her patience. She plans to kill her husband while he is sleeping, but the plan fails. Instead of actually killing him, she accidentally stabs him in the penis. At the end of the trial, their second baby dies, and it creates a lifetime of regret.

Lifetime Regret

1986

1970s · 5 titles

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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

Istriku Sayang Istriku Malang poster
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After being pregnant for the third time, Shinta has to undergo another operation. After this, Shinta becomes frigid. Norman, her husband, then finds himself a girlfriend, Yulia, a colleague. Shinta divorces him and she leaves with her two children to brave Jakarta’s city life. Norman then comes to his senses and tries to look for his wife and children. He manages to find her in a very poor and weak condition before she dies.

Istriku Sayang Istriku Malang

1977

Live, Love and Tears poster
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Yudi has just got out of jail but Bono and the gang force him to commit another crime. Unlike the others in the gang who spend their money for fun right away, Yudi saves his money in the bank. He then meets Sari and starts changing his life. Bono and the gang are mad when they find out about it and they kidnap Sari’s sister. Then Yudi has to fight them and they all die, including Yudi.

Live, Love and Tears

1970

Something Beautiful poster
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Director Wim Umboh experiments again and the first third of the movie is filled with a series of images almost without dialogue relating the work of brothers, Johanes and Leo Mokodompis.

Something Beautiful

1976

Samiun dan Dasima poster
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Drawing from the novel, lenong (play) and the previous film (Njai Dasima I), this new film version has heightened erotic scenes considered the boldest for its time. But as mentioned by the director, the eroticism is meant to reveal the psychological aspects of the characters. Unlike the previous version, that mainly highlights conflict between love and witchcraft, this one features social and psychological conflicts. For example, how Dasima feels like an outsider with Edward Williams’s friends, or how she prefers leaving their house to live with her maid in the village. It also shows more background of the Samiun and Hayati characters - Samiun is a black market trader with a lot of debts and Hayati is a woman obsessed with gambling to get rich. When his debts are due and he is unable to pay, Samiun asks his friend, Puasa, to “rob” him while he is returning to their village with Dasima.

Samiun dan Dasima

1970

1960s · 2 titles

Behind the camera

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Rafiq is a dangdut singer who comes to Jakarta to advance his career. Parto, his friend from the same village tries to represent him to different recording companies. But they differ because of Rafiq’s naivete and Parto’s city-style plus Parto’s insistence on pop music, and Rafiq’s dedication to dangdut. So their conflict is resolved by a music expert and student, Norma, who is researching dangdut music, and who eventually becomes Rafiq’s girlfriend. But the person who manages to get Rafiq a record deal is Lily, whom Rafiq meets when working in a car shop. Finally, Rafiq gains Norma’s hand when her parents approve their relationship.

Karena Dia

1979

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

No artwork available
NR

To restore Soraya's spirit of life, her uncle managed to persuade Rafiq, who looks like Husain, Soraya's deceased lover, to pretend. This makes Rafiq's real boyfriend angry and then conspires with Rafiq's best friend to gain profit.

Cantik

1980

Shackled poster
NR

Eddy, a bank security guard was successfully shackled by Liona, a former prostitute. He divorced his wife, followed Liona's lifestyle, got into debt everywhere until finally robbing bank customers due to being caught in many difficulties.

Shackled

1984

Marina poster
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Anton SH (Robby Sugara), a young lawyer, is overcome by fear of the madness that has infected his father and grandfather. Because of that, he was afraid to marry. When he finally married Marina (Marini), he asked her not to get pregnant. This family's journey is even more complicated because Marina's career is successful as a singer and Anton's lack of success as a lawyer. Difficulties peaked when Marina became pregnant.

Marina

1974

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An adaptation of the Mochtar Lubis novel.

Sendja Di Djakarta

1967

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An adaptation of the Mochtar Lubis novel.

Sendja Di Djakarta

1967

Kenikmatan poster
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Noni, for the sake of her love for Tono, was willing to sacrifice everything, including running away from home and becoming a prostitute at Tono's request. While Tono himself continued to gamble until their house was burned down. Noni was gang raped because of Tono's own bait. However, when she wanted to complain to Tono, she only found a letter informing her that Tono was going to marry another woman. So at his wedding party, Noni came with a knife as a gift that was stabbed into Tono's body.

Kenikmatan

1984

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Father, Cokro, has a disagreement with the son, Baskoro, while there is a revolt of the factory workers in the cigarette factory. During the upheaval, Baskoro has an accident that forces him to stay at home and he loses his self-confidence. He falls in love with his nurse, Sumi, unaware that his stepmother is also attracted to him. The leader of the factory revolt, Prabowo, is really the illegitimate child of Cokro; while Sumi is also their little sister as their mother is now married to Doel, the chauffeur of the family. The narrative is complicated and twisted.

At the Edge of Night

1979

Those Who Fall at Men’s Feet poster
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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

Luka Hati Sang Bidadari poster
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Parista's household relationship with his wife Rindayu, experienced problems because his wife often had miscarriages. After knowing the cause, because of rough sex, Parista was able to restrain herself. When Rindayu was pregnant, Rindayu found out that her husband was having an affair, Rindayu was determined to kill her husband's lover.

Luka Hati Sang Bidadari

1983

Dr. Karmila poster
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Karmila (Tanty Josepha), a final year student at the Faculty of Medicine, is engaged to Edo (Rudy Salam) who is studying abroad. In a youth party, Karmila is trapped by Feisal (Robby Sugara), a bad boy who then rapes her. Karmila is willing to marry Feisal on the condition that after the baby is born and old enough, he will divorce. She stayed with her aunt until she gave birth and was curt, not taking care of the baby. Meanwhile, Feisal has the opposite attitude because he is sorry and loves Karmila. The son then followed his father and Karmila continued his studies until the end. During a party to go abroad, Karmila was told that her child was sick. Karmila comes to check. Her heart melted, and she canceled her abroad and chose to be a good wife for Feisal, so she had two children. He refused Edo who returned from abroad.

Dr. Karmila

1981

Semalam di Malaysia poster
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This rare Indonesian film (last to be produced by Runme Shaw) about a poor fisherman family with one young son Jarot and also expecting another. One day the husband Marto (Koesno Soedjarwadi) had to go on a long fishing trip with Jarot. Their fishing boat then got hit by a storm and sunk, separating them both.

Semalam di Malaysia

1975