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Bachtiar Effendi

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Nationality Pays-bas
Death 1 april 1976

Bachtiar Effendi (also spelled Bachtiar Effendy; after 1903 – 1 April 1976) was an Indonesian film actor and director who also served as a cultural critic. Beginning his film career in 1930, he made several works for Tan's Film before joining a drama troupe. After spending ten years in British Malaya, he returned to Indonesia and directed several more films before being sent to Italy as a press attaché. He lived in the country for most of the remainder of his life, having found disfavour after supporting the Revolutionary Government of the Republic of Indonesia.
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Filmography of Bachtiar Effendi (3 films)

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Actor

Melati van Agam (I and II)
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Bachtiar Effendi

Norma is known throughout her hometown of Fort de Kock (now Bukittinggi) for her beauty, to the point that she is known as the "Jasmine of Agam". She is in love with a man named Idrus, who is a miner at Sawahlunto. Her parents – descended from nobility – disapprove of the relationship and betroth Norma to Nazzaruddin, a school headmaster who already has four children and is older than Norma's father. Norma is distressed, having previously vowed her eternal love to Idrus, and dreams of having a home with him.

Director

Njai Dasima
Directed by Bachtiar Effendi
Genres Drama

Dasima is a njai (concubine) for the Englishman Edward William. Together with their daughter, Nancy, the couple live in a home near Gambir Square in Batavia (modern day Jakarta). Their happy life is disturbed after the delman driver Samioen falls in love with Dasima, despite already being married to Hajati. He attempts to use magic (goena-goena) to win her heart, and asks an egg merchant, Mak Boejoeng, to frighten Dasima by telling the young woman that she has committed the sin of zina (extramarital sex).