stem des voice blood known film dutch_east_indies indonesia directed starred film follows man mistress reunite son step daughter fall love black white film lost different colours certain scenes released early commercial success critical opinion mixed plot van supervisor tea plantation named keeps mistress named children adolf annie day van returns netherlands leaving young mixed race children netherlands marries young widow takes daughter step daughter lives uncle forest van return asking help local years later wife dies return indies hired supervisor plantation far old place work searches couple children old know unbeknownst van children raised natives wear traditional clothes received western education adolf hunter annie stays home mother frederick new manager fallen tries unsuccessfully time wandering woods deer adolf comes brings plantation van recognises takes supervisor frederick jealous adolf relationship workers van plantation strike adolf fired van fire son adolf goes sumatra hunt elephants frederick begun annie rejects adolf returns hears supervisor actions fights frederick knocks heard lover returned goes woods nearly caught adolf sends letter van telling find family reunited production directed flip man mixed indonesian european descent previously documentaries targeted film dutch audiences account focus native customs farming coverage unusual contemporary works fiction documentaries handled subject production house handled film based contemporary reviews erroneously gave house production began late early scenes shot sumatra starred mixed race wife annie van story advertised adapted novel like contemporary films produced indies low production values film silent black white final production consisted meters film dutch indonesian film historian notes viewers native ethnic chinese unable read order provide colour certain scenes entirely shade post production instance scene farmers gathering rice violet release reception released seeing premiere march year july screened reported success native audiences filling theatres film received mixed critical reception anonymous review based praised film picture especially colour acting review based likewise praised film stating beginning end showed indies grand film review criticised censorship bureau failure catch scenes frederick drinking alcohol reviewer found dangerous prestige considering large native audiences writing criticised film extensively writing meant exclusively dutch audiences netherlands living indies able reflect reality places found extension lack logic writing violet indicated farmers harvesting rice sunset happened legacy went films starring romance set south coast java titular role second sacrifice followed following year film saw play mixed raced woman living palace commercial failure left indies long moving netherlands lived death writing suggests clearly written point view positive roles children finds film sympathetic native culture including faithful notes interest real life mixed race children faced sense disgust stem des man heroic rescue pure dutch woman fight film likely lost american visual writes indonesian films lost indonesia indonesian records having survived indonesia archives writes japanese propaganda films survived
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