Lino Brocka

Lino Brocka was born in 1939 into a poor family in the province of Nueva Ecija; he worked as a Mormon missionary in Hawaii, then returned to work in television and commercial cinema, where he began in 1970. He shot quickly, with popular-cinema actors, alternating studio melodramas with films that showed urban poverty under the dictatorship; critics first took note of two films from 1974 and 1975, one of which is regarded as the greatest Philippine film. Four of his films were shown at Cannes. He died in 1991.

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• CinemaInsiangLino Brocka · 1976Cinema