Baler

The Siege of Baler, an 1898 battle that pitted patriot Filipino forces against the Spanish colonial army, provides the backdrop for this cinematic portrait of the controversial romance between a half-Spanish soldier (Jericho Rosales) and a young Filipina girl (Anne Curtis). Their story stretches across the 337 grueling days during which a small Spanish rifle battalion inside the town held out heroically against the local forces surrounding them.