Poesaka Terpendam

Two young men, Agoes and Badjoel, travel from Palembang to West Java and are told of the beauty of two sisters, Zaenab and Djoeleha, who live in Cicadas village with their father. The friends decide to visit Cicadas. Meanwhile, a local bandit leader named Ramelan has asked for Zaenab's hand in marriage. She and her father Ardi refuse, and Ramelan is forced to leave.

Through an old letter found on Ardi, Ramelan learns of a buried treasure containing some 30,000 gulden. He decides to dig it up, kidnapping Zaenab and Djoeleha in the process. Seeing this, Agoes and Badjoel follow Ramelan to his gang's hideout in a cave and fight to save the treasure and girls.

After rescuing the girls and defeating the bandits, Agoes and Badjoel are allowed to marry Zaenab and Djoeleha. The treasure, meanwhile, is divided amongst them.{{sfn|De Indische Courant 1941, Sampoerna}}

Poesaka Terpendam was produced by Tan's Film and starred Roekiah and Rd Djoemala. It also featured Titing, Kartolo, Ismail, Ramli, and Wolly Sutinah.{{sfn|Filmindonesia.or.id, Poesaka Terpendam}} Shooting for the film, originally titled Poesaka Pendeman, began in June 1941.{{sfn|Pertjatoeran Doenia 1941, Warta dari Studio}} Scenes for this black-and-white film were shot in Banten, including Lake Tasikardi in Serang and Lake Tikoro in Rajamandala. The film featured several kroncong songs, some sung by Roekiah.{{sfn|Poestaka Timoer 1941, Poesaka Terpendem}}{{sfn|Pertjatoeran Doenia 1941, Poesaka Terpendam}}

Poesaka Terpendam was released on 22 October 1941, on the Eid ul-Fitr holiday. It was debuted simultaneously at the Sampoerna Theatre in Surabaya, the Luxor Theatre in Yogyakarta, the Centraal Theatre in Buitenzorg, and the Rialto Theatre in Senen, Batavia.{{sfn|Poestaka Timoer 1941, Poesaka Terpendem}}{{sfn|Pertjatoeran Doenia 1941, Poesaka Terpendam}} A preview in Poestaka Timoer promised a great performance from Roekiah as well as an extraordinarily comic one from Kartolo.{{sfn|Poestaka Timoer 1941, Poesaka Terpendem}}

Pertjatoeran Doenia dan Film wrote that it was the only film to date in which Djoemala seemed out of place; the reviewer wrote that Djoemala seemed overly stiff and unnatural during the fight scenes.{{sfn|Pertjatoeran Doenia 1942, Ismail Djoemala}} A review in De Indische Courant praised the film's scenery.{{sfn|De Indische Courant 1941, Sampoerna}}

The film is likely lost, as are all Indonesian films from before 1950 according to American visual anthropologist Karl G. Heider.{{sfn|Heider|1991|p=14}} As elsewhere in the world at the time, movies produced in the Indies were shot on highly flammable nitrate film, and after a fire destroyed much of Produksi Film Negara's warehouse in 1952, old films shot on nitrate were deliberately destroyed.{{sfn|Biran|2012|p=291}} However, Kristanto records several as having survived at Sinematek Indonesia's archives, and film historian Misbach Yusa Biran writes that several Japanese propaganda films have survived at the Netherlands Government Information Service.{{sfn|Biran|2009|p=351}}

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• {{cite journal

|title=Ismail Djoemala: Dari Doenia Dagang ke Doenia Film

|trans-title=Ismail Djoemala: From Enterprise to Film

|language=Indonesian

|journal=Pertjatoeran Doenia Dan Film

|issue=9

|location=Batavia

|volume=1

|date=February 1942

|pages=7–8

|ref={{sfnRef|Pertjatoeran Doenia 1942, Ismail Djoemala}}

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• {{cite journal

|title=Poesaka Terpendam

|trans-title=Buried Treasure

|language=Indonesian

|journal=Pertjatoeran Doenia Dan Film

|issue=4

|location=Batavia

|volume=1

|date=September 1941

|pages=40

|ref={{sfnRef|Pertjatoeran Doenia 1941, Poesaka Terpendam}}

}}

• {{cite journal

|title=Poesaka Terpendem

|trans-title=Buried Treasure

|language=Indonesian

|journal=Poestaka Timoer

|issue=66

|location=Yogyakarta

|volume=

|date=15 October 1941

|page=29

|ref={{sfnRef|Poestaka Timoer 1941, Poesaka Terpendem}}

}}

• {{cite web

| title = Poesaka Terpendam

| language = Indonesian

| url = http://filmindonesia.or.id/movie/title/lf-p016-41-849090_poesaka-terpendam

| work = filmindonesia.or.id

| publisher = Konfiden Foundation

| location = Jakarta

| access-date = 27 July 2012

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131202204516/http://filmindonesia.or.id/movie/title/lf-p016-41-849090_poesaka-terpendam

| archive-date = 2 December 2013

| url-status = live

| ref = {{sfnRef|Filmindonesia.or.id, Poesaka Terpendam}}

}}

• {{cite news

|title=Sampoerna: "Poesaka terpendam"

|trans-title=Sampoerna: 'Poesaka Terpendam'

|language=Dutch

|work=De Indische Courant

|location=Surabaya

|url=http://kranten.kb.nl/view/article/id/ddd%3A011176339%3Ampeg21%3Ap002%3Aa0062

|date=10 October 1941

|page=2

|ref={{sfnRef|De Indische Courant 1941, Sampoerna}}

}}

• {{cite journal

|title=Warta dari Studio

|trans-title=Reports from the Studios

|language=Indonesian

|journal=Pertjatoeran Doenia Dan Film

|issue=2

|location=Batavia

|volume=1

|date=July 1941

|page=27

|ref={{sfnRef|Pertjatoeran Doenia 1941, Warta dari Studio}}

}}

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Category:1941 films

Category:1941 lost films

Category:Dutch East Indies films

Category:Indonesian black-and-white films

Category:Lost Indonesian films

Category:Tan's Film films