Tatlong Taong Walang Diyos | |
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Directed by | Mario O'Hara |
Produced by | Nora Aunor |
Written by | Mario O'Hara |
Starring |
Nora Aunor Christopher De Leon Rafael Roco, Jr. |
Music by | Minda D. Azarcon |
Cinematography | Conrado Baltazar |
Edited by |
Efren Jarlego Ike Jarlego Jr |
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Running time
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118 minutes |
Country | Philippines |
Language | Filipino |
Tatlong Taóng Walang Diyos (Filipino for "Three Godless Years") is a 1976 award-winning Filipino period film by Mario O'Hara starring Nora Aunor, Christopher De Leon, and Bembol Roco.
The film, set during the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines between 1942 and 1944, tells the story of Rosario (Aunor), a young schoolteacher engaged to be married to Crispin (Roco). Crispin leaves Rosario to fight the Japanese as a guerilla, and in his absence a Japanese-Filipino officer named Masugi (De León) 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 the baby they have conceived together.
Reviews were very positive, with Pio de Castro III of The Times Journal in 1976 calling it "one of the best films" of the year. Film critic Noel Vera agreed, calling the movie the "greatest Filipino film ever made", and Vincenzo Tagle stated in 2012 that it "still remains unsurpassed".
In 2016, the ABS-CBN Film Restoration, restored and digitally remastered the film and will have its premiere on November 15, 2016.