Film · Drama

The Tenants (1976)

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.

Director

Behn Cervantes

Writers

Lualhati Bautista, Oscar Miranda

Country

Philippines

Language

Filipino

Release date

February 20, 1976

Original title

Sakada