Sang Penari

Sang Penari The Dancer is a 2011 Indonesian film based on the trilogy of novels Ronggeng Dukuh Paruk by Ahmad Tohari and directed by Ifa Isfansyah. Starring Nyoman Oka Antara and Prisia Nasution, it tells the story of a young man and his friendship with his small villages new ronggeng.

In 1953, two tempeh bongkrk makers in Dukuh Paruk, a small hamlet in Banyumas, Central Java, accidentally sell poisoned tempeh, which kills many residents, including the much respected ronggeng local traditional dancer. The residents of the hamlet begin panicking and rioting, causing the tempeh makers to commit suicide. Their daughter, Srintil, survives and is raised by her grandfather Sakarya Landung Simatupang.Ten years later in 1963, Srintil Prisia Nasution and Rasus Nyoman Oka Antara are fast friends. Rasus also has romantic feelings for her. With the hamlet starved and in a depression since the loss of its ronggeng, Sakarya receives a vision that Srintil will become a great ronggeng, capable of saving the hamlet from starvation. He then convinces Srintil to become a ronggeng. She then tries to proves herself to Kartareja Slamet Rahardjo, the hamlets ronggeng caretaker and his wife Dewi Irawan by dancing at the grave of Ki Secamenggala, the hamlets founder. Her attempt is only successful after Rasus gave her the ronggeng amulet belonged to the late ronggeng of Dukuh Paruk. Seeing this amulet, Kartareja then announces that Srintil has been chosen by the founders spirit. Meanwhile, Indonesian Communist Party member Bakar Lukman Sardi arrived in the hamlet and convincing local farmers to join the party, saying that the Communist party are the only ones who can help save the wong cilik underclass of Dukuh Paruk and their starved hamlet. ........

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