PLOT: A story that explores family conflict between 2 sisters and their painter father before the World War 2, in Intramuros, Old Manila.

A.Portrait.of.the.Artist.as.Filipino.1965.Lamberto.V.Avellana.576p.BluRay.AAC1.0.x264.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 51 min
Size: 	2.49 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	790x576 
Aspect ratio:  	1.372
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	3 013 kb/s
BPP: 	0.276
Audio
#1:  	English 1.0ch AAC LC @ 170 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/6FC91EFB7FABFDE/A.Portrait.of.the.Artist.as.Filipino.1965.Lamberto.V.Avellana.576p.BluRay.AAC1.0.x264.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:French

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Plot:
An classic film by film studio LVN, largely because of shining performances by Rosa Rosal and Tony Santos. It won the award for best direction (Lamberto V. Avellana, National Artist for Theater and Film in 1976), best story (Rolf Bayer), best editing (Gregorio Carballo), and best cinematography (Mike Accion) at the 1957 Southeast Asia Film Festival held in Tokyo.
A story about the Badjaos and the Tausogs, rival tribes for centuries. The Badjaos, a group of sea gypsies, ply the sea for food and for pearls.
Hassan (Tony Santos), a son of the Badjao chief falls in love and marries Bala Amai (Rosa Rosal) who is a niece of Datu Tahil (Jose de Cordova), head of the land-dwelling Tausogs. At the urging of Bala Amai, Hassan decides to leave his tribe and join the Tausogs.
Eventually, Datu Tahil learns of Hassan’s expertise in finding rare pearls in the sea, thus exploiting him for his own selfish interests. Hassan and Bala Amai resist him, feeling that their self-respect have been trampled on. They decide to go back to the Badjaos and lead a more humble, but nevertheless peaceful life. the Badjaos accept them with all their hearts.

1.37GB | 1h 38mn | 608×464 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/067A7C208887FE1/Badjao.1957.DVDRip.XviD.AC3.DLB-KG.avi

Language:Filipino
Subtitles:English hard sub

The post Lamberto V. Avellana – Badjao AKA Badjao, the Sea Gypsies (1957) first appeared on Cinema of the World.