Doea Tanda Mata

(title translation: Two Mementos)

Set in the 1930s, Gunadi, a Klaten youth who has been married for a year, is recruited to join the resistance movement. He leaves his teacher wife and starts printing unauthorized revolutionary leaflets. In the printing house, that is also a theatre, he meets Ining. Ining seems to fall in love with Gunadi. Gunadi clashes with his group because he cannot control himself when the Dutch kills his friend and Ining’s brother, while they are riding with him on a motorcycle. He desires for revenge and wants to tackle the police commissioner whom he blames for the deaths. Ining also wants to kill the commissioner so she becomes his mistress, while she gets Gunadi a job as a driver so he can ambush him. While his friends from the movement continue to suspect Gunadi, they shoot the man who is portrayed as a skeptic. Ining shouts how stupid and narrow-minded they are, which can be considered as the voice of the director.