Director : Lino Borcka
Script : Rocardo Lee
Photographer : Conrado Baltazar
Editing : Eren Jarlego
Sound : Rudy Baldovino, Willy Islao
Music : Max Jocson
Actors : Christofer De Leon, Philip Salvador, Carmi Martin, Cecille Castillo, Baby Delgado, Mona Lisa, Ruel vernal
Production : Cine Suerte
Contact :
Carlotta Films
74 rue de Charenton
75012 Paris
tél : 01 42 24 10 86
[email protected]
www.carlottafilms.com
Year : 1982
Screening : 2023
Blu Ray, Color, 111 mn, OV tagalog FRSUB
Restored version
Señora Pina rules with an iron fist over the family farm otherwise managed by her eldest son, Lorenz. Despised by his mother since his early childhood, Lorenz has lived in the shadow of his younger brother Ellis, who has gone to study in Manila. When Ellis arrives from the city with his fiancée and declares that he will take over the farm, the family's destiny turns into horror and fratricidal war.
“Cain and Abel” is a dazzling transposition of the biblical tale into the Philippines of the 1980’s, telling the story of a family torn apart by love and hate, exploring the eternal struggle between good and evil with a modern eye. As a mult-faceted work that can be read in many ways, a hardly veiled allegory of the terrible dictatorship of Marcos, Lino Brocka’s work is both a melodrama and an action film.