G. Kruger

Georg Eduard Albert Krugers (Banda Neira, 4 November 1890 – The Hague, 10 August 1964; also written as G. Kruger) was a cameraman and film director active in the Dutch East Indies (modern Indonesia) during the early 20th century. He is recorded as having worked in film since the mid-1920s, and in 1927 he made his directorial debut, Eulis Atjih. He joined hajj pilgrims in 1928 and screened the resulting documentary in the Netherlands. His 1930 film Karnadi Anemer Bangkong is thought to be the first talkie in the cinema of the Indies, but was a commercial failure as the majority Sundanese audience considered it insulting. After making two works for Tan's Film in the early 1930s, Krugers moved to Hong Kong and then the Netherlands.

Sources disagree regarding much of Krugers' life. J. B. Kristanto's Katalog Film Indonesia lists him as having been born in Hong Kong, but does not give a year. However, a 1933 newspaper report gave Krugers' age as 43 and his place of birth as Banda Neira, and a Georg Eduard Albert Krugers is known to be born there in 1890.

Krugers is recorded as having been active in film in the mid-1920s, leading the laboratory at N.V. Java Film. He may have been one of its founders, together with the Dutchman L. Heuveldorp. The company exclusively produced documentaries until 1926, when Heuveldorp directed the colony's first feature film, Loetoeng Kasaroeng. Krugers served as a cameraman for the film, which was based on a Sundanese folktale, also processing the film in his laboratory in Bandung.

The following year, Krugers directed his own film, titled Eulis Atjih, which followed the beautiful Eulis Atjih as she falls into poverty after being left by her husband. International release emphasised the ethnographic aspects of the film. The film was a commercial failure, but Krugers told his backers that the film had recouped its expenses. Later that year Krugers left Java Film to form his own company, Krugers Filmbedrijf (Krugers Film Company),

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