Operation Kalimantan

Country

Czechoslovakia, Indonesia

Copyright

1962

Production year

1961

Premiere

17 August 1962

Runtime

69 min

Category

film

Genre

drama

Typology

featuretheatrical distributionlong

Original title

Akce Kalimantan

Czech title

Akce Kalimantan

English title

Operation Kalimantan

Co-production title

Aksi Kalimantán

Synopsis

After the end of the Second World War, the fighting continued in some parts of the world, as colonized countries struggled for independence. In the setting for this film, Indonesian soldiers have already won freedom for the island of Java, but on Kalimantan, called Borneo by the colonizers, Dutch soldiers remain. One day they bombard a village and only the Indonesian Captain Bitah survives. Under dramatic circumstances, he manages to reach Java on a raft. There, he establishes a small partisan unit dropped from an airplane over the Kalimantan jungle. During the descent, one of the paratroopers is severely injured and another one, the telegraphist Sarto, loses the transmitter in the moorland. Dutch soldiers find the parachute and begin to pursue the partisans. Several of Bitah's men died, but men from the villages gradually join the unit. Sarto and the soldier Siput disguise themselves as fishermen and creep into the residence of a Dutch colonel. The Indonesian servant Nathan takes Sarto to a transmitter, and Sarto manages to transmit the information concerning the place where the support and weapons are to be dropped off. Right afterwards, Sarto is shot dead by Dutch guards. The next morning, Siput and Nathan are put before an execution squad. But before they die, they can hear the Indonesian airplanes bringing help from Java to Bitah and his men.

Note

The actors included Indonesian paratroopers.

Cast

Martin Růžek

holandský plukovník Boeklinder

Hana Kreihanslová

Ann, plukovníkova žena

Gustav Heverle

poručík, plukovníkův pobočník

Jaroslav Kála

holandský telegrafista

Soeherman

nadporučík

MUDr. Kálenský

holandský námořní kapitán

J. P. Ibrahim

desátník

Bambang Hermanto

kapitán Bitah

B. Pitradjaja

voják Siput

Bambang Irawan

telegrafista Sarto

Saul Dudung

Djahan, zajatý voják

Choesarie

Saruwong, zraněný voják

Soenardi

Damang

Koesno

Karing

Pedro Parera

Bahen

Abdul Kadir

Litung

Donald Hartono

Renden

Manan Dipa

Djankrik-Cvrček

Litbagay

seržant Singir

Raden Ismail Djajaningrat

sluha Nathan

dr. Murad

major Rusli

Sofia Waldi

matka

Mieke Widjaja

Dewi, Sartova dívka

Crew and creators

Second Unit Director

Pavel Hobl

Assistant Director

Václav Matějka

Continuity

Alena Sísová

Screenstory

S. Suryadarma, Vladimír Sís

Shooting Script

Vladimír Sís

Director of Photography

Josef Vaniš

Second Unit Photography

Stanislav Milota

Camera Operator

Václav Helliman

Production Designer

Vladimír Labský

Assistent Production Designer

Leopold Zeman

Film Editor

Miroslav Hájek

Assistant Film Editor

Anna Křemenová, Jitka Šulcová

Sound Designer

Josef Vlček, Bohumír Brunclík (zvukové efekty)

Production Manager

Antonín Bedřich

Unit Production Manager

Jiří Ulrich, Otto Renelt

Unit Production Manager

Jaroslav Solnička

Consultant

Miroslav Oplt, mjr. Agoes Soeroto

Cooperation

Václav Kovařík (vrchní osvětlovač), Zorica Dubovská, Eva Vaníčková, Dodong Djiwapradia, Suhardjo, Daddy Soewastodjo, Soetardi, Sjofyan Alty, Frans Hasibuan

Music

Music Composed by

Wiliam Bukový

Music Performed by

FISYO (Music Conducted by Štěpán Koníček)

Production info

Original Title

Akce Kalimantan

Czech Title

Akce Kalimantan

English Title

Operation Kalimantan

Co-production Title

Aksi Kalimantán

Category

film

Typology

featuretheatrical distribution

Genre

drama

Origin country

Czechoslovakia, Indonesia

Copyright

1962

Production Year

1961

Production specifications

literary Screenplay approved 5 April 1961
technical Screenplay approved 15 August 1961
start of filming 20 September 1961
end of filming 10 December 1961
projection approval 6 May 1962
withdrawal from distribution 31 December 1973

Premiere

premiere 17 August 1962 /suitable for youths/ (kino Blaník /1 týden/, Praha)
premiere 17 August 1962 /suitable for youths/ (celostátní)

Copyright Holders

Národní filmový archiv

Creative Group

Tvůrčí skupina Šmída – Fikar, Ladislav Fikar (vedoucí dramaturg tvůrčí skupiny), Bohumil Šmída (vedoucí výroby tvůrčí skupiny)

Technical info

Duration typology

feature film

Duration in minutes

69 min

Original length in metres

1 953 meters

Distribution carrier

16mm, 35mm

Aspect ratio

1:1,85, 1:2,35

Colour

colour

Sound

sound

Sound system/format

mono

Versions

Czech

Dialogue languages

Dutch, Indonesian

Subtitles languages

Czech

Opening/End credits languages

Czech