L'Indonésie apelle

Appointed by the Dutch government as a Film Commissioner of the Dutch East Indies, Joris Ivens was supposed make educational and informational films and to film the liberation of Indonesia. However, when he arrived in Sydney and found out that the Dutch government had no intentions to make Indonesia an independent country, but restore the pre-war colonial situation in Indonesia, if necessary with military violence, and this being in contradiction with the information he'd been given and the Atlantic Charter treaty, Joris Ivens resigned his post and made this film. He stated that the Dutch were not working on Indonesia's independence, but on a re-colonization of it. The film is clandestinely shot in the harbours of Sydney, where the port workers unions boycot the Dutch ships filled with military supplies and summon the workers to turn down labour on these ships.