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Sakay is a film based on the life of Macario Sakay, a Filipino revolutionary leader who fought against the Americans in 1902. It was the first film directed by Lamberto Avellana, who later regretted portraying Sakay as a bandit instead of a patriot.
Sakay: Directed by Lamberto V. Avellana. With Salvador Zaragoza, Leopoldo Salcedo, Joseph De Cordova, Arsenia Francisco. The story of the life and death of Macario Sakay, the President of the Tagalog Republic and one of the last Filipino generals to surrender to the American forces during the American colonial period.
The mark of Macario Leon Sakay was the long, jet-black luxu-riant hair that, uncut and un-trammeled, cascaded from the top of a head, always held high and audaciously, down to his shoulders.
The story of the life and death of Macario Sakay, the President of the Tagalog Republic and one of the last Filipino generals to surrender to the American forces during the American colonial period.
Avellana made his film debut with Sakay in 1939, a biopic on the early 20th-century Filipino revolutionary Macario Sakay. The film, though a box-office flop, [2] was particularly distinguished for its realism, which was atypical of Filipino cinema at the time.
Jun 27, 2010 · June 27, 2010 | 12:00am. Mario Montenegro, the Brown Adonis of the ‘50s, shed his debonair looks in the Sampaguita movie Alyas Sakay (1961), the story of a barber from Tondo who led a pocket...
His first film was Sakay. According to pioneering film critic T.D. Agcaoili, the director’s first movie marked the introduction of a truly creative Philippine cinema, employing organically in film some of the elements of modern stagecraft and dramaturgy that had been lacking in Philippine movies.
