Indonesian Director Mouly Surya Talks Independence Epic ‘This City Is A Battlefield’ & Shooting With Jessica Alba In ‘Trigger Warning’ — Rotterdam
deadline.comFresh off shooting Trigger Warning in the U.S., starring Jessica Alba, Indonesian filmmaker Mouly Surya quickly launched into completing her fifth feature film, independence epic This City is a Battlefield, which stars Chicco Jerikho, Ariel Tatum and Jerome Kurnia.
This City is a Battlefield will serve as the closing film for the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) on the evening of February 8.
The prolific writer-director has also finished shooting her next film, Tukar Takdir, based on an anthology of short stories.
This City is a Battlefield was adapted off a 1952 novel titled “A Road with No End” by Mochtar Lubis, which had been sitting on Surya’s bookshelf untouched for a while. “I happened to read it by chance,” said Surya. “I had just read a few pages of it, I could not forget the images that it brought to my mind.
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