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Directed by | Behn Cervantes |
Screenplay by | Lualhati Bautista |
Story by | Oscar Miranda |
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Cinematography | Edmund Cupcupin |
Edited by | Edgardo Vinarao |
Music by | Lucio San Pedro |
Production company | Sagisag Films |
Distributed by | Sagisag Films |
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Running time | 119 minutes |
Country | Philippines |
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Sakada (The Tenants, also Seasonal Sugarcane Workers) is a 1976 Philippine social-realist film about the ordeals of sugarcane farmers on the island of Negros in the Philippines. It is "a thinly-veiled criticism of the country's feudal power structure."[1] The film was directed by Behn Cervantes and written by Oscar Miranda (story) and Lualhati Bautista (screenplay). Music was done by Lucio San Pedro.[2] It starred Alicia Alonzo, Robert Arevalo, Hilda Koronel, Pancho Magalona, Bembol Roco, Gloria Romero, Rosa Rosal, and Tony Santos Sr.[1][3]
The movie spent three weeks in theaters before Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos ordered the military to seize copies of the film.[1][4][5] The director was also arrested under the order of Marcos.[5] Sakada was first screened on Philippine television in 2005.[4]
Musical scorer Lutgardo Labad described the film as "a major cinematic coup that unearthed the inhuman conditions of our people then."[6]