Running time 124 minutes Country Language Budget ID Rp. 8 billion (US$ 890,000; ~ US$ 1,000,000 in 2017 accounting for inflation) Box office $16.67 million Laskar Pelangi (: The Rainbow Troops) is a 2008 Indonesian film adapted from the popular Laskar Pelangi (novel). The movie follows a group of 10 schoolchildren and their two inspirational teachers as they struggle with poverty and develop hopes for the future in Gantong Village on the farming and tin mining island of off the east coast of. The film is one of the highest grossing in Indonesian box office history and won a number of local and international awards. Contents • • • • • Synopsis [ ] The movie, set in the 1970s, opens on the first day of the year at a elementary school on Belitung. The school needs 10 students but is one short until near the end of the day, when a straggler fills out the ranks for their teachers, Muslimah and Harfan.