Santiago!

Santiago! (1970)

...the story told by the dictates of the conscience and written with blood and tears of courage...

A nighttime attempt to sabotage a Japanese munitions store in the little town of Santiago goes wrong when Gonzalo (Fernando Poe, Jr.) discovers that the schoolhouse they are about to blow up is filled with women, old men, and schoolchildren.

Date of release
1970-11-13
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (2)
Runtime
1h 53m
Genres
Action
Director
Lino Brocka

Casting

Interesting facts

Santiago! is a 1970 Philippine war drama written and directed by Lino Brocka and starring Fernando Poe Jr. as a guerrilla soldier during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. It is the first film to include Hilda Koronel in a credited role, for which she won Best Supporting Actress at the 1971 FAMAS Awards at the age of 13. She would go on to act in seventeen of Brocka's films.

Production

Scenes from the film were shot in Magdalena, Laguna.

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