Soekarno

The film tells the life of Soekarno, the first president of Indonesia. At its centre is the struggle for independence from Dutch colonial rule. The account builds him as a figure who speaks from the platform, gathers crowds and pays a price for it. The film presents him openly as a founder, and that view is the account’s own choice. His private life and his political life run side by side and keep cutting across each other. Because it tells the life of a real head of state, the film is also building a national story. Ario Bayu plays Soekarno, with Lukman Sardi, Tanta Ginting and Tika Bravani also in the cast. Hanung Bramantyo’s hundred and thirty seven minute Indonesian film was completed in 2013.