Bukit Kepong (film)
1981 film directed by Jins Shamsuddin
Bukit Kepong is a 1981 Malaysian epic war film produced and directed by Jins Shamsuddin starring himself, A. Rahim and Hussein Abu Hassan. A collaboration between Jins Shamsuddin and the Royal Malaysia Police, the film is a dramatization of the Bukit Kepong incident in 1950.
The film has won eight awards in the third Malaysia Film Festival in 1982, including Best Film.
In 2014, the film was re-edited by United Studios (a distributing and marketing company of KRU International), which had invested MYR 100,000 in restoring and improvement for high definition (HD) display resolution of the original film. It was reproduced in HD version; as Bukit Kepong Versi Digital HD a year later. For this restoration, the movie was cropped to 16/9 instead of its original academy ratio and electronic stereo widening has replaced the original mono soundtrack, thus distorting the director’s original vision. The technical works was done by Prodigital Lab (owned by KRU Malaysia).
Plot
The story is set in 1950 during the Malayan Emergency (1948-1960) in which communist guerrillas of the Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA) fought against the British colonial government of Malaya. The plot follows the struggle of the Federation of Malaya Police and local community in Bukit Kepong, Johor, in fighting against an MNLA assault in 1950. The battle peaked by the MNLA attack of Bukit Kepong police station where 18 policemen were attached on the dawn of 23 February 1950.
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