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Merantau

Year:
Duration:
Indonesia:134 min (director's cut) | 106 min (international cut version)
Genres:
Action | Drama
IMDB rate:
6.8
Director:
Gareth Evans
Awards:
1 win
Details
Country: Indonesia
Release Date: 2009-11-05
Filming Locations: Jakarta, Indonesia
Cast
Actor
Character
Iko Uwais
Yuda
Christine Hakim
Wulan
Mads Koudal
Ratger
Yusuf Aulia
Adit
Alex Abbad
Johni
Yayan Ruhian
Eric
Laurent Buson
Luc
Donny Alamsyah
Yayan
Ratna Galih
Ayi
Philip Hersh
Ratger (voice: English version)
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Trivia
During the first part of the movie which tells Yuda's daily life with his mother and brother, half of the dialogs are in Minang language (one of more than 500 local dialects and languages in Indonesia), and have to be subtitled into Indonesian in the Indonesian released.
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Gareth Evans met Iko Uwais when he was hired to make a documentary film on Silat produced by Christine Hakim production company. Impressed by the young man's screen presence, Evans casts him as the leading role for his first action movie.
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Goofs
In the fight towards the end, the crowbar used by Luc appears to bend when struck against the Yuda's rod, indicating it's a rubber prop.
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Yuda left his small bag on construction site after on previous day his wallet was stolen once and he know none of the construction worker and he slept for the whole night on there after crossing the fence illegally. (This scene doesn't appear on International version.)
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In Jakarta Yuda calls his mother, who live on other island, from a public phone. Jakarta public phone doesn't serve inter-city calls and the coins he uses are not enough for long conversation (in the international version, the conversation is much shorter than in the Indonesian version).
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