White Butterfly (1983) — action, crime, drama film. Directed by Bobby Sandy. Starring Anna Tairas, Harry Capri, Rima Melati, Clift Sangra.
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A tragic tale of forbidden desire, family secrets, and societal judgment in a 1930s mining town.
Action, Crime, Drama · 90 min · 1983
Riri, will be free from her stepmother when she marries Leo and leaves for Jakarta. But Leo is a supplier of women, for a high-class brothel, owned by Mama Rosa. Thus Riri is "forced" to be a resident of the brothel. Ferdi, her friend from the village, who opens a tyre shop near the brothel, abuses her. Ferdi is drunk, and forces Riri to have sex with him. Then, Ferdi is tortured by the brothel bouncers, until he is burning for revenge. He then becomes a waiter at a kick-boxing club, and becomes an amateur boxer, while Riri still continues her profession. One day, they meet each other in a shopping center and Ferdi asks Riri to run away with him. When the men of Mama Rosa finds them, Ferdi knocks them out one by one with a broken beer bottle. He is thrown into jail while Riri waits for him.
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