Gundala (2019) on Netflix
TV-1420192h 3mActionAdventureDrama
Sancaka grows up homeless in Jakarta after his father is killed during a factory strike. He guards a printing plant while crime boss Pengkor plots to poison the rice supply.
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- Netflix3.6/5
- IMDb6.1/106,292 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes83%
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Plot summary
Sancaka's father, a factory worker, leads a strike and Sancaka joins him as the workers clash with security guards. His father is stabbed by another worker and dies; in his grief, lightning comes out of Sancaka's body. A year later his mother goes to another city for work and does not come back, and Sancaka ends up on the streets of Jakarta, where a street child named Awang teaches him to fight. As a grown man, Sancaka works at a newspaper printing factory, guarding the building and repairing the machines. Pengkor, a disfigured crime boss who commands a nationwide army of orphans raised as assassins, plots to poison the rice supply with a drug meant to leave unborn children unable to tell right from wrong. Legislator Ridwan Bahri leads support for releasing an untested antidote.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Gundala (2019)
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- Photographer and graphic designer Iskandar Salim made a fake Gundala movie in 2010, with a website, Facebook page, posters and staged photos, to spark debate about Indonesia's lack of superhero films. The hoax drew so much attention that Gundala's creator, Hasmi, entered talks to make a real one.
- Joko Anwar called writing Gundala the hardest work of his career, spending seven months on the script when a typical one takes him only one to two months.
- Sound designer Khikmawan Santosa, a frequent Best Sound Designer winner at the Indonesian Film Festival, died on May 11, 2019, and Gundala was one of his last projects.
- The film used the 1962 song "The End of the World", popularized by Skeeter Davis; the production team felt its lyrics matched Gundala's theme, that a country whose people do not uphold justice heads for the end of the world.
