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A Rustling of Leaves: Inside the Philippine Revolution

A Rustling of Leaves: Inside the Philippine Revolution

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 13, 1988

Runtime

1h 52m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

A Rustling of Leaves: Inside the Philippine Revolution

Production Companies

Kalasikas Productions, Britdoc Foundation

Director

Nettie Wild

Description

A chronicle of the three points of a political triangle — the legal left, the illegal (armed) revolution, and the enemy which threatens them both: the armed reactionary right. It is 1987. The dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos has just been overthrown. Newly elected President Corazon Aquino struggles to wrench control of the country from her own military. A Rustling of Leaves poses the key question facing the revolutionaries and the Filipino Left: Should the People’s Movement continue the guerilla war, or do they dare enter legal politics and reveal the hidden face of the revolution?