The Poet

The poet Ibrahim Kadir plays himself in a political drama about his arrest and incarceration in Aceh in the 1960s. Kadir survived the mass murder of suspected communists by the Indonesian government that cost between 500,000 and two million lives.

Director: Garin Nugroho

Cast: Ibrahim Kadir, Piet Burnama, El Manik, M. Junus Melalatoa, M. Din, Amak Baldjun, José Rizal Manua, Ella Gayo

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.