Leonard Retel Helmrich – Stand van de Sterren AKA Position Among the Stars (2010)
Synopsis:
Indonesia is the world’s fourth most populous country and has also the largest Muslim population. For 12 years, filmmaker Leonard Retel Helmrich has followed an Indonesian family from the slums of Jakarta. Just as in his previous two multiple award-winning documentaries THE EYE OF THE DAY and SHAPE OF THE MOON, in POSITION AMONG THE STARS, he continues to show us the underlying patterns of life in Indonesia. His intimate access to the Indonesian Sjamsuddin family provides viewers a microcosm depicting the most important issues of life in Indonesia today: corruption, conflict between religions, gambling addiction, the generation gap, and the growing difference between poor and rich. The grandmother Rumidjah, a confessed Christian, has left the bustle of Jakarta to live with her friend in the countryside. Her son Bakti, who has converted to Islam, is responsible for raising his juvenile niece Tari. Because he can’t handle Tari, Bakti got his mother back to Jakarta in order to teach her granddaughter about moral and social values. Tari grows up in a time of increasing openness. A time in which people are allowed, and even expected, to express their opinion about everything. Older people grew up in a repressive time they haven’t got used to democracy. The generation gap between young and old like in the Western countries has become a new phenomenon in Indonesia. One does not have to have seen Leonard Retel Helmrich’s previous films to fully enjoy POSITION AMONG THE STARS.
Position Among the Stars (2010) -- Leonard Retel Helmrich.mkv
General
Container: Matroska
Runtime: 1h 50mn
Size: 1.62 GiB
Video
Codec: x264
Resolution: 716x572 ~> 1016x572
Aspect ratio: 16:9
Frame rate: 25.000 fps
Bit rate: 1 900 Kbps
BPP: 0.186
Audio
#1: 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 Kbps
Language(s):Indonesian
Subtitles:English (hardcoded)
