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Manila in the Claws of Light

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7.3
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Original title
Maynila: Sa mga kuko ng liwanag
Year
Running time
126 min.
Country
Philippines Philippines
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Genre
Drama | Prostitution. Poverty. Job/Employment
Synopsis
Julio, a young fisherman, leaves his village to go to Manila, where he hopes to find his fiancée Ligaya, who went there for her studies and from whom he hasn’t heard anything. In order to make a living, he gets a job as a worker on a construction site, but he will soon discover the slums of the Filipino capital.
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User history
Manila in the Claws of Light
1975
Lino Brocka
7.3
(245)
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