Rizal in Dapitan

Rizal in Dapitan (1997)

Rizal sa Dapitan

Dr. Jose Rizal was exiled in Dapitan from 1892-1896. These were his last four years. Dapitan served as his prison cell. He always compared it to “a beautiful cage” where he is imprisoned. This was the longest imprisonment Rizal ever had. He became so lost by those times, but still he did not lose his mind. Even there, he continued studying and discovering things. He continued his conversation with his friends, scientists and doctors outside the country.

Date of release
1997-09-09
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (2)
Runtime
1h 40m
Genres
Drama, History, Romance
Director
Tikoy Aguiluz

Casting

Interesting facts

Rizal in Dapitan is a 1997 Philippine biographical film directed by Tikoy Aguiluz about the four-year exile of Filipino propagandist and patriot José Rizal in Dapitan, starring Albert Martinez as Rizal and Amanda Page as Josephine Bracken. The screenplay was written by Pete Lacaba.

Production

Antonio Samson, then the senior vice president of PLDT, came up with the idea of making a film about the time José Rizal was exiled in Dapitan, and brought it to director Tikoy Aguiluz.

The film was shot entirely in the City of Dapitan, Zamboanga del Norte on 16 mm film. Up to June 1997, the film was simply titled Dapitan. Aguiluz originally meant for the film to have a shorter length for release on television, but he eventually decided against it, convincing the producers to let him extend it to feature-length.

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