在这部Sakada剧情片中,Sakada is considered one of the great films in the second golden age of Philippine Cinema.
This gripping drama tells about the impoverished lives of the Sakadas or sugarcane plantation workers under an exploitative feudal agricultural system, the imbalance between the poor peasants and the rich hacienderos in the distribution of wealth which triggered the passage of the Land Reform Act.
An all-star cast featuring veteran artists, this controversial movie was seized by the military and pulled out of the theaters during the Marcos dictatorship.
The inner workings of a family headed by a union organizer are revealed when his body is brought back to his hometown for burial. A sakada is a farmer who works in a sugarcane field harvesting it during the months of October to December. After this period, some sakadas who already live in the hacienda plant crops to tide them over until the next sugarcane harvest. Those who came from other provinces go back home. They are seasonal farm workers without any benefits. The plight of the sakadas is further explained as the movie develops, exposing along the way the vast gap between the rich and the poor.
