The 5th Hong Kong International Film Festival, part two
The second instalment of my review of what I saw at the Fifth Hong Kong International Film Festival in 1981 covers films from Thailand, Turkey, China, Indonesia and the […]
Review: Yuyun, a Patient in a Mental Hospital (1979)
Director: Arifin C. Noer
Cast: Farah Meuthia, W.D. Mochtar, Charlie Sahetapy, Sofia W.D., Abduh Mursid,
Farah Meuthia
W.D. Mochtar
Charlie Sahetapy
Sofia W.D.
Abduh Mursid
Plot: A mental hospital becomes a sanctuary for their ex-patients when they feel rejected by a society who thinks that they have an illness that can never be cured. "Everybody wants me to come back here," says Yuyun. But she tries hard to prove that she is cured. She can live normally like other "healthy people", and is able to work well, and even to fall in love.
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