Three Godless Years

Tatlong Taong Walang Diyos

Philippines

1976

124 Min

Color

Tagalog

Currently 4.3/5 Stars.
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CAST Nora Aunor, Christoper De Leon, Bembol Roco

ED Efren Jarlego, Ike Jarlego Jr.

The film, set during the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines between 1942 and 1944, tells the story of Rosario (Nora Aunor), a young schoolteacher engaged to be married to Crispin (Bembol Roco). Crispin leaves Rosario to fight the Japanese as a guerilla, and in his absence a Japanese-Filipino officer named Masugi (Christopher de Leon) rapes her.

Masugi later returns to Rosario apologizing for his act, bearing gifts of canned food and rice which Rosario at first refuses. Matters are complicated when Rosario’s father Mang Andoy (Mario Escudero) is arrested by the Japanese and Rosario reveals to Masugi that she is pregnant. Rosario must make a choice: accept Masugi’s proposal to make her his wife (saving her father and ensuring a safe and stable life for her child), or reject him and with him the baby they have conceived together. —Wikipedia

Director

Mario O'Hara

Mario O’Hara is an award winning Filipino film director, film producer and screenwriter known for his sense of realism often with dark but realistic social messages. He is of American descent.

A native of Zamboanga, O’Hara collaborated often with the acclaimed director Lino Brocka in his 1970s films. He wrote the screenplay for Brocka’s You Were Judged and Found Wanting (Tinimbang Ka Ngunit Kulang, 1974), one of Brocka’s rare attempts at a broad canvas, about life in a small provincial town.

O’Hara’s 2004 film Babae sa Breakwater addresses issues of poverty in Manila and was met with some considerable success.

Due to his claustrophobia he is unable to attend film festivals internationally. —Wikipedia