Panggilan Darah

Panggilan Darah Indonesian for Call of Blood is a 1941 film from the Dutch East Indies now Indonesia written and directed by Sutan Usman Karim and produced by Tjho Seng Han for Oriental Film. The blackandwhite film starred Dhalia and Soerip as orphaned sisters trying to make a living in the colonial capital of Batavia now Jakarta before moving to Kudus to work at a clove cigarette factory.

Orphaned sisters Dhalia and Soerip themselves leave their village in an attempt to make a living in the colonial capital of Batavia now Jakarta. After a long period of misery, they are accepted as housemaids at the home of Hajji Iskak Mochtar Widjaja. Although initially elated, they find that Iskaks wife Wolly Sutinah is a cruel mistress who often beats them. Meanwhile, Iskaks wouldbe soninlaw is constantly flirting with Dhalia, much to his fiances dismay.The sisters decide to run away from Iskaks home. They make their way to Kudus and find work at the Nitisemito clove cigarette factory with the help of their friend S. Poniman. Not long after their escape, Iskak receives a guest who reveals that the two were his nieces. This revelation spurs Iskak to take out advertisements in newspapers, looking for the young women and asking them to return to Batavia. ........

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