Tiger from Tjampa

Tiger from Tjampa Indonesian Harimau Tjampa is an Indonesian black and white drama film released in 1953, produced by Perfini, written and directed by D. Djajakusuma. It is still highly regarded today in Indonesia as an early portrayal in a fiction film of aspects of a traditional regional culture. Despite the numerous combat scenes as well as scenes of students practicing pencak silat, Indonesias traditional form of selfdefence, based on the movements of animals and although in the film, the lessons are conducted by a famous master, Tiger from Tjampa was never presented as a martial arts film.

Set in the 1930s, and narrated like an old ballad, The Tiger from Tjampa tells the story of a young man, Lukman Bambang Hermanto who seeks to avenge his fathers murder by learning pencak silat, Indonesias traditional form of selfdefence, based on the movements of animals. The pencak silat shown in the film is regionally specific to West Sumatra.Lukman pleads Datuk Langit Raden Ismail to teach him, the man having asked him for three buffalos as payment which is beyond his means. Lukman then witnesses a man beat his opponent in a fight quite easily and begs him to teach him silat. The man agrees with the condition that his silat would not be used for oppressing the weak, but for self defense only. Lukman breaks his promise numerous times, but every time his teacher always manages to forgive him until his lessons are complete. Lukman then once defies his teacher by killing a gambler, and is imprisoned. ........

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