The Tenants

The Tenants

1976 · 118 min · ★ 3.0 · Drama

A sakada is a farmer who works in a sugarcane field. The film proceeds to document the stages of sugar production once in the mill, then shifts to the unrest outside where a sakada was shot to death by one of the hacienda's guards.

Directed by Behn Cervantes · Written by Lualhati Bautista

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