Djakarta di Waktu Malam
1954 · Drama
This Indonesian classic drama hits all the melodrama beats—sacrifice, forbidden love, karmic comeuppance—with genuine emotional stakes and the kind of old-school storytelling that rewards patient viewers. If you're in the mood for a richly plotted tearjerker with moral weight and you don't mind subtitles, absolutely watch it tonight.
Plot
Sriwardhani becomes a singer at "Happy World", after her father is killed by a gang of robbers. There she meets Edy Sumarno and they get married without Edy's mother consent. When Edy gets sick, Sri asks her mother-in-law for money to buy medicine. But the mother asks Sri to divorce her son for the money. Sri accepts this for her husband's sake. When Edy recovers, his mother arranges a marriage for him. However, the marriage does not work well and his wife dies in a car accident. Edy's mother regrets her decision and tells him to go look for Sri again.
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