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Sofia W.D.

Sofia W.D.

During the Japanese occupation, she attended Andjar Asmara's theater school. In 1948, she made her film debut in Air Mata Mengalir di Tjitaroem, using the name Sofia Waldy. After a divorce from first husband S. Waldy, she married actor W.D. Mochtar and began professionally using the name Sofia W.D., starting in 1964. Not just an award-winning actress of both stage and screen who appeared in well over 100 films, Sofia also became one of Indonesia's first female directors with 1962's Badai-Selatan ("Southern Storm"), a horror tale that was nominated for the Golden Berlin Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival. She produced, wrote and even operated the camera on a number of films, and was the director of the production companies Film Capital, Libra Film and Dirgahayu Jaya Film over the course of her busy and prolific career.

On screen

  • Arie Hanggara
  • For You, I'll Give Everything
  • Treachery of G30S/PKI
  • The Five Faces of Kadarwati
  • Fatima
  • Behind the Mosquito Net
  • Lara jonggrang (Candi Prambanan)
  • Wedding 83
  • The White Crocodile
  • Roro Mendut
  • The Queen of Black Magic
  • Mystics in Bali
  • The Last Train
  • Queen of the South Coast
  • Lady in a Trap
  • Yuyun, a Mental Hospital Patient
  • Teenage Idol
  • The Temptation of the Demon Woman
  • Greedy Appetite
  • Badai Pasti Berlalu
  • Christina
  • Max Havelaar: or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company
  • Malam Pengantin
  • Lagu Untukmu
  • The Lady
  • The Moon on the Graveyard
  • The Earth Gets Hotter
  • Timang-timang Anakku Sayang
  • River of Love
  • Teenage Bride
  • The Longest Dark
  • Tjita-Tjita Ajah
  • Golden Queen
  • Bulan Purnama

Behind the camera

  • Fighting the Storm
  • Lioness from Marunda
  • River of Love
  • Senen Raja

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