http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6...pinas&hl=en

don't you just love the part when the "insurrecto" bar tender went "Manana!" with an evil air about him (complete with duh duh dun background)...with his thick eyebrows and huge forehead. haha. Those Filipinos! No good Indios!

awesome!

i enjoyed the movie!

The protagonists are the Spaniards while the bad guys are the Filipinos?

i kinda like seeing the filipinos as the bad guys. i feel a sense of dominance when i see the protagonist become fearsome of the enemy which are filipinos in this case.

Would have been better if there was a translation i could only understand about 15% of what theyre saying.

Good movie, especially because it's the only Spanish movie about Philippines I know of.

Is this the historical event that happened in Baler Quezon?

I didn't see any Indios in the movie because they all look Spanish.

Yes, the film is from 1945 and I believe it was entirely shot in Spain and with Spanish actors.

and then shouldn't you be dancing in joy! since you love the spanish.

is just another spanish propaganda.

True. The movie was considered a classic of post-war, Francoist Spain and featured a number of the country's most celebrated actors. Antonio Román was the director of the film, which won recognition for both the quality of the filmmaking and its detailed historical account of the dramatic events surrounding the Siege of Baler (El sitio de Baler). The movie even popularized the song “Yo te diré” in Spain at the time.

What's also interesting is the personal connection Generalísimo Francisco Franco had with the Philippines. According to a recent biography, Franco may have had an illegitimate, half-brother, who was half-Filipino (born to his father Nicolás Franco, who was in the Spanish navy, and a Filipina mother).

More significant, however, were some of his close Filipino supporters. Among his supporters from the Philippines were Don Luis Pérez y Samanillo, Don Tirso F. Lizárraga, Jr., Federico Díaz-Moreu Elizalde, Don Manuel N. Nieto, Sr., Don Enrique Zóbel y de Ayala, and Don Andrés Soriano y Roxas.


Don Luis (Lluis) Pérez y Samanillo, managing partner of the family real estate firm R. Pérez Samanillo y Cía (an avid chess enthusiast, Don Luis was also a founder of el Club de Ajedrez, which later became the Philippine Chess Association). Luis and brother Rafael founded the partnership to manage the vast real estate holdings that they had inherited from their parents Don Manuel Pérez y Marqueti and Doña Agustina Samanillo y Fragoso, who moved to Barcelona, Spain after the Spanish American War.


The De La Salle College campus at Calle Nozaleda, Paco in Metro Manila, which is where the school had been located before it was relocated to its Taft Avenue address, was an estate purchased from R. Pérez Samanillo.



The Pérez Samanillo Building (on the right), built on the family's Calle Escolta property in 1928, is one the few Art Deco structures in Asia and features patterns such as chevrons, triangles and squares incorporated with stylized floral patterns.


At the Cinc d’Oros in Barcelona, Spain, is the Casa Pérez Samanillo, the headquarters of the Círculo Eqüestre, a high-society club. It was built in 1910 for the Pérez Samanillo family by Joan Josep Hervàs i Arizmendi and was awarded the prize for best building that year by the Barcelona city government. General Franco witnessed the "Victory Parade" of 21 February, 1939 from the balcony of Casa Pérez Samanillo. Today, it is a city landmark.


Don Tirso F. Lizárraga, Jr., head of the family partnership Sociedad Lizárraga Hermanos and President of la Cámara Oficial Española de Comercio Industria y Navegación en Filipinas (the Spanish Chamber of Commerce in the Philippines) before the war.


Noted early Jazz musician (he helped introduce Jazz from America to England) and classical conductor/composer Federico "Fred" Díaz-Moreu Elizalde was the youngest son of Philippine business magnate Don Joaquín José Aicinena Elizalde and Doña Carmen Díaz-Moreu vda. de Elizalde. He moved to Spain as a young man and served as an officer in General Franco's Army (as part of a Navarrese Basque regiment) during the Spanish Civil War. He was wounded at Oviedo and decorated for his bravery. He returned briefly to the Philippines in late 1937, occupying the Casa Grande at the Elizalde and Company campus, which was originally built to house the General Manager of the company's Tanduay Distillery (the house was later occupied by Don Fausto Presyler's family, followed by Don Fabián Echevarría's family).


Col. Manuel N. Nieto, Sr., aide-de-camp to Philippine President Quezon and businessman, being received by Generalísimo Francisco Franco in Spain (where he also owned several residences).


Rare photo of Don Andrés Soriano y Roxas, Sr. (second from right) & Don Enrique Zóbel y de Ayala (at far right) at a Philippine rally in support of Franco's Falange movement.

It is interesting to note that the Spanish mestizo community was very much divided over the Spanish Civil War. The Filipino Basque community was particularly torn during this period. Many Navarrese families, such as members of the Elizalde and Lizárraga families, supported Franco initially, while Bizkaian and Gipuzkoan families, such as the Elizaldes' former partners the Ynchausti family, opposed Franco. More remarkable, however, is that the Spanish mestizo community would set aside their past differences over this issue and come together once again in a strong display of reconciliation and Filipino unity after the war.