Seno Gumira Ajidarma

It is a legend, shaped by a prolonged of economic crisis, in a country that once was, and its name is Indonesia. Sukab is a dog thief whose family has also become dogs. Sukab targeted dogs wherever he could, hunting down dogs that let their guard down, and would never have guessed how his fate would end up as a dish for a family.

Wiro Sableng tenía solo cuatro años cuando sus padres fueron asesinados en una redada de bandidos. Ahora es criado por una vieja guerrera excéntrica, Sinto Gendeng, cuyo antiguo discípulo Mahesa Birawa fue el hombre detrás de la incursión fatal. Para evitar que Mahesa se vuelva más peligroso, Sinto le enseña a Wiro el legendario 'silat' de artes marciales, preparándolo para ser el próximo 212 Dragon Axe Warrior. Wiro finalmente hereda el poderoso 212 Axe después de 17 años de entrenamiento. Luego deja las montañas y comienza su viaje para evitar que Mahesa lleve a cabo sus malvados planes.

Una maestra de artes marciales tiene cuatro discipulos, hijos de los enemigos que asesinó en su día. Dos de ellos traman un plan para arrebatarle el secreto de su arte marcial y terminar con su vida, mientras los otros dos se enfrentarán a ellos.

This film tries to read the idea of film archiving in the mind of Misbach Yusa Biran. A character who gave his entire life to preserve and reinterpret the discourse of film as a source of Indonesian film history. The archives stored are entirely in Sinematek Indonesia.

This film almost literally visualize three short stories on which it is based. The difficulty was to assign real spaces in the film for the world of short stories that does not require material reality. The question of ”What is love?” is stretched into three periods: the 70s, the 80s and the 90s. The story which is divided into three periods is trying to reveal the story of the main characters through three different periods of their lives.