13 Comments on “Banned Movie Promised Paradise”

1. Mehameha Says:
   March 22nd, 2008 at 7:51 am

   Thanks for the lead. I tried to watch the movies. It started out fine but after a few minutes it froze and the screen kept on flashing ‘buffering’ message. Tried both on my Mac and PC, same results. Could you possibly know the reason? PS: I am using 100Mbps fibre connection.

2. Lairedion Says:
   March 22nd, 2008 at 1:09 pm

   Mehameha,

   I don’t know. It’s an external link. I expected people having trouble watching the movie, at least those Indonesia-based as IT-infrastructure is not fit yet for widescale broadband internet. As for you with a 100 Mbit connection that shouldn’t be a problem so I cannot tell you why it’s buffering.

   I call upon everybody having trouble watching the movie to report this at my e-mail address ibandayak@hotmail.com. I will burn the movie to a DVD (my DVD recorder doesn’t have a LAN-connection ) and put the DVD online on several platforms (usenet, public torrent) and just an plain image file from my own pc at home. I will shrink the output file to keep the amount of MB’s acceptable. Once the movie is downloadable I reply to you with links to the download sites.

3. Riyoz Says:
   March 22nd, 2008 at 11:12 pm

   hmm….downloadin’ time…:)

4. Pena Budaya Says:
   March 26th, 2008 at 6:58 pm

   Thanks for the link! Hartelijk bedankt!

5. Lairedion Says:
   March 26th, 2008 at 7:09 pm

   No thanks. Did you manage to watch the movie?

6. Peter Says:
   March 30th, 2008 at 2:14 am

   Hey I saw that movie on satellite tv last year, it was really good. But wait Agus didn’t actually talk to Imam Samudra – it was just editing? That is probably the most powerful part of the film, especially when Agus asks Samudra: “You knew some of the bombers well. So tell me, do you sleep well at night? Or do your dead friends visit you?”

7. Lairedion Says:
   March 30th, 2008 at 3:42 am

   Peter,

   Agree. That was the best part. Watching Imam Samudra silenced with tears in his eyes after all his crap talk about Islam, jihad, crusades etc.

   I do believe Agus talked with Imam Samudra. The editing made this part indeed so powerful.

   Thanks for your comment.

8. Lairedion Says:
   March 31st, 2008 at 3:45 am

   It seems that too many people located outside the Netherlands have trouble watching the movie so I put it online on the following link:

   http://cid-b0ea57e8bb5c135e.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/Public/Promised%20Paradise

   First you must download all 4 parts and extract them with Winrar (http://www.rarlabs.com). The movie itself is in .ivr format which can be viewed with the free Real Player (http://www.real.com).

   Later I will put other Helmrich movies online.

   Peter, I’m not quite sure Agus actually talked directly to Imam Samudra…

9. Merja Says:
   April 20th, 2008 at 9:37 pm

   You wouldn’t know of the chance for English subtitles? I saw this once on a documentary film festival, where they had them.

10. loco Says:
    June 27th, 2008 at 4:00 am

    Thx a lot for sharing this great film. I was in Nyon last year and Helmrich said, thrde was no contact between Agus and Samudra. He did it with editing…

    Could you put other film of Helmrich online? It is almost impossible to have his movie..
    thx

11. Lairedion Says:
    June 27th, 2008 at 5:01 am

    loco,

    I will. I need to find time to upload the other movies. Send me an e-mail to ibandayak@hotmail.com and I will notify you once they have been uploaded.

12. rani Says:
    July 16th, 2008 at 5:28 am

    Thank you so much for the link. I’m looking for these movies for ages. Well, two and a half year, actually, since I watched Stand van de Maan in Jiffest. Love his works!

13. Pak G Says:
    July 21st, 2008 at 10:57 am

    Just saw Promised Paradise on cable LinkTV, here in San Francisco.
    It’s a powerful and beautiful movie.
    I want to watch it again on the link on this page.

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