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.
The actors included Indonesian paratroopers.
holandský plukovník Boeklinder
Ann, plukovníkova žena
poručík, plukovníkův pobočník
holandský telegrafista
nadporučík
holandský námořní kapitán
desátník
kapitán Bitah
voják Siput
telegrafista Sarto
Djahan, zajatý voják
Saruwong, zraněný voják
Damang
Karing
Bahen
Litung
Renden
Djankrik-Cvrček
seržant Singir
sluha Nathan
major Rusli
matka
Dewi, Sartova dívka
S. Suryadarma, Vladimír Sís
Josef Vlček, Bohumír Brunclík (zvukové efekty)
Jiří Ulrich, Otto Renelt
Miroslav Oplt, mjr. Agoes Soeroto
Václav Kovařík (vrchní osvětlovač), Zorica Dubovská, Eva Vaníčková, Dodong Djiwapradia, Suhardjo, Daddy Soewastodjo, Soetardi, Sjofyan Alty, Frans Hasibuan
FISYO (Music Conducted by Štěpán Koníček)
Akce Kalimantan
Akce Kalimantan
Operation Kalimantan
Aksi Kalimantán
film
featuretheatrical distribution
drama
Czechoslovakia, Indonesia
1962
1961
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 17 August 1962 /suitable for youths/ (kino Blaník /1 týden/, Praha)
premiere 17 August 1962 /suitable for youths/ (celostátní)
Tvůrčí skupina Šmída – Fikar, Ladislav Fikar (vedoucí dramaturg tvůrčí skupiny), Bohumil Šmída (vedoucí výroby tvůrčí skupiny)
feature film
69 min
1 953 meters
16mm, 35mm
1:1,85, 1:2,35
colour
sound
mono
Czech
Dutch, Indonesian
Czech
Czech