Sofia W.D.

During the Japanese occupation she attended Andjar Asmaras 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 WD Mochtar and began professionally using the name Sofia WD starting in 1964 Not just an awardwinning actress of both stage and screen who appeared in well over 100 films Sofia also became one of Indonesias first female directors with 1962s BadaiSelatan 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