Njai Dasima (1929 film)
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Njai Dasima is a 1929 silent film from the Dutch East Indies. It details the fall of a rich mistress at the hands of a greedy delman driver. The first film released by Tan's Film, the film – adapted f
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The njai were women who were kept as housekeepers, companions, and concubines in the Dutch East Indies. In the Javanese language, the word nyai meant "sister", but the term later took a more specific
Njai Dasima (1929 film)
…was a critical and commercial success. It was released in two parts, followed by a sequel, and remade another two times by 1940. Dasima (Nurhani) is a nyai, or a native mistress, for the Englishman Edward William. The couple and their daughter Nancy live in a home near Gambir Square in Batavia (modern day…
A Dutch man named Van der Velden with his Njai and their daughter.