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Fight for Us

Fight for Us

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Status

Released

Release Date

May 24, 1989

Runtime

1h 34m

Genres

Drama, Crime, Action

User Score

64%

Original Title

Orapronobis

Production Companies

Special People Productions, Bernadette Associates International, The Cannon Group

Director

Lino Brocka

Description

Set during the post-Marcos regime in a remote village of Dolores, chronicles the life of Jimmy Cordero, a political prisoner who have just been freed from prison after the decline of the Marcos dictatorship. From his revolutionary past, he got himself into human rights activism following his prison release. He and his wife’s brother once conducted a fact-finding mission to Dolores only to find out the terror brought about to its residents by the Orapronobis, a government backed anti-communist paramilitary troop deployed in the town of Dolores.