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Watch Nyai: A Woman from Java (2016) Online

  • 6.5/10
  • RUNTIME: 1h 30m
  • COUNTRIES: Indonesia
  • Subtitles: Nederlands,Bahasa indonesia,English,

Set in Indonesia's Dutch colonial era, in 1927, a young and beautiful woman lives with her sick and aged Dutch husband. This woman loses her own name and is called Njai, which means a foreigner's concubine, and realizes that she is living in a kind of prison, while she deals with loads of visitors to her residence. Director Garin Nugroho shows in a distinctive way how much effort a woman, deserted both by the colonial country's law and the colonized country's traditional culture, puts in to retain her dignity.