Matjan Berbisik

Matjan Berbisik Indonesian for Whispering Tiger Perfected Spelling Macan Berbisik, also known by the Dutch title De Fluisterende Tijger is a 1940 film from the Dutch East Indies which was directed by Tan Tjoei Hock and produced by The Teng Chun. Starring Hadidjah and Mohamad Mochtar, the film follows two men who are raised as brothers and compete for the love of the same woman. A copy of the blackandwhite film, which featured keroncong music, is stored at Sinematek Indonesia.

Matjan Berbisik was directed by Tan Tjoei Hock and produced by The Teng Chun for Action Film, a subsidiary of Java Industrial Film JIF. Tan had previously worked for The on Dasima in 1940. Tan wrote the blackandwhite films script, while Mas Sardi handled music. The title was derived from an Indonesian belief that a person could house the soul of a tiger vicious, hungry, and dangerous.The film starred Mohamad Mochtar and Hadidjah, who had first acted together in Thes AlangAlang Grass 1939 and were promoted as a celebrity couple in competition with Raden Mochtar and Roekiah of Tans Film. Other cast members included Bissoe and Said. Bissoe had been acting for JIF since Oh Iboe Oh Mother some two years previously. The keroncong singer Miss Soelami made an appearance, providing vocals keroncong, traditional music with Portuguese influences, had become common in films following the success of Albert Balinks Terang Boelan Full Moon in 1937. ........

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