page_title: Ikan Doejoeng
section_title: Release and reception
hierarchical_section_title: Ikan Doejoeng / Release and reception
caption_attribution_description: Film still from the 1941 film Ikan Doejoeng
context_page_description: Ikan Doejoeng is a 1941 film from the Dutch East Indies directed by Lie Tek Swie and starring Asmanah and Soerjono. Following star-crossed lovers, the film was the first released by Standard Film. Likely targeted at the educated elite, it is now probably lost.
context_section_description: Ikan Doejoeng was released in late 1941. By September of that year it had been screened in Medan, and by December it had reached Surabaya. It was rated "for all audiences" ("voor all leeftijden"). The Indonesian film historian Misbach Yusa Biran suggests that the film was likely targeted at the growing native intellectual class, citing the plot. He writes, however, that the Ikan Doejoeng's technical quality was on par with films aimed at uneducated audiences. The film was advertised as having a "deeply poignant theme of pure love", which would give viewers "a good perspective on the Eastern mentality."
  Lie would go on to direct one last film for Standard, Siti Noerbaja, in 1942; he ultimately left the company. Standard closed later that year, having released three films: the last, Selendang Delima (Pomegranate Shawl), was directed by Henry L. Duarte.
  The film is likely lost. The American visual anthropologist Karl G. Heider writes that all Indonesian films from before 1950 are lost. However, JB Kristanto's Katalog Film Indonesia (Indonesian Film Catalogue) records several as having survived at Sinematek Indonesia's archives, and Biran writes that several Japanese propaganda films have survived at the Netherlands Government Information Service.
caption: A still from Ikan Doejoeng
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