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The Ruins

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Original title

Anak dalitaaka

AKA

Child of Sorrow

Year

1956

Running time

119 min.

Country

Philippines

Director

Lamberto V. Avellana

Screenwriter

Rolf Bayer. Story: Rolf Bayer

Cast

Music

Francisco Buencamino Jr.

Cinematography

Miguel Accion (B&W)

Producer

LVN Pictures

Genre

Drama | Crime. Jealousy

Synopsis

Vic, a war hero from Korea returns to find his mother dying. When his mother dies, he is befriended by Tita, a prostitute with a golden heart who takes care of him, but eventually both fall into a deeper relationship. Since both are poverty-stricken, Vic decides to work with Kardo, a smuggler...

Avellana’s most acclaimed work combines the terrible images of Manila’s ruins (the film was shot a decade after war’s end, but due to lack of funds reconstruction was hardly complete) with a penchant for directing lively colloquial dialogue, and fine unforced performances from Rosa Rosal and Tony Santos; the result is a noirish melodrama set in an unrelentingly bleak postwar reality.

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The Ruins

1956

Lamberto V. Avellana