Nagabonar
MovieTitle | Nagabonar |
User score | 6.1 |
Release date | Dec 31, 1986 |
Genre | Comedy, War |
Director | M.T. Risyaf |
Production country | Indonesia |
Production companies | PT Prasidi Teta Film |
Run time | 101 min. |
All sorts of unlikely figures come to prominence in wartime, no matter what the country. Indonesia is no exception. In this comedy, Naga Bonar, a pickpocket who has seized the opportunity of the moment to declare himself a general in the Freedom Forces during the chaos of the Japanese occupying forces’ withdrawal in 1945, as the Dutch attempted to reassert their control over the area. However, soon a mask becomes his true self, and he becomes a true soldier and patriot.