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View all search resultsAfter the film’s production was completed, the house was inaugurated on Aug. 13 as the Bumi Manusia Museum by Hanung and Astuti, one of the daughters of Indonesia's most-venerated writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer, who wrote the novel Bumi Manusia.
While decidedly imperfect, the movie adaptation of Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s Bumi Manusia (This Earth of Mankind) justifies its epic length by delivering absorbing drama mainly propelled by Sha Ine Febriyanti’s excellent performance.
During the New Order era, the government's ban on Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s works forced many curious readers to secretly obtain Pramoedya’s novels or photocopies of them. This is no longer the case, now that two of his books – Bumi Manusia (This Earth of Mankind) and Perburuan (The Fugitive) – have been adapted to movies and celebrated in a lavish two-day event in Surabaya, East Java, on the weekend.
Worlds apart from their humble and tragic beginnings, the movie adaptations of Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s Bumi Manusia (This Earth of Mankind) and Perburuan (The Fugitive) will be treated to perhaps one of the most extravagant premier events in Indonesia’s cinema history.
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