![]() ![]() Many issues surrounding Soe Hok Gie are still sensitive. In Riri Riza's film, Gie is played by the half-Indonesian, half-German young actor Nicholas Saputra, with whom Riza has worked before. He put reason above loyalty and refused to link himself to political parties, even though he was very committed and interested in politics. ![]() The post-colonial years were not easy for anyone, but certainly not for an unconventional free-thinker such as Gie. He died on his 27th birthday, by inhaling poisonous gases while climbing a mountain, his favourite sport. When Suharto took power, Gie was working as a teacher. Gie was born a Catholic during the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies and educated at the Canisius College and the Universitas Indonesia at a time when tensions under Sukarno were increasing. Despite its relatively small budget, this is an almost epic biographical film about the life of the Chinese/Indonesian writer and journalist Soe Hok Gie (1942-1969). ![]()
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