Fight for Us

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Fight for Us

Release Date: May 24, 1989

Year	:	1989
Slogan	:	«The revolution is over. The fight has just begun...»
Genres	:	Drama, Crime, Action
Production Companies	:	Special People Productions, Bernadette Associates International, Cannon Group
Director	:	Lino Brocka
Producers	:
Writers	:	Jose F. Lacaba
RunTime	:	94 mins.

Set during the post-Marcos regime in a remote village of Dolores, chronicles the life of Jimmy Cordero, a political prisoner who have just been freed from prison after the decline of the Marcos dictatorship. From his revolutionary past, he got himself into human rights activism following his prison release. He and his wife’s brother once conducted a fact-finding mission to Dolores only to find out the terror brought about to its residents by the Orapronobis, a government backed anti-communist paramilitary troop deployed in the town of Dolores.