Amigo (2010) on Netflix
Rafael Dacanay is kapitan of San Isidro, a barrio on Luzon. His brother Simón's guerrillas have taken the Spanish outpost, and American troops arrive and leave a garrison behind.
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Plot summary
In 1900, in the rice-growing barrio of San Isidro on Luzon, Simón commands the guerrilla band that has taken the Spanish guardia civil outpost, and he has tasked his brother Rafael, the barrio's kapitan, with holding the guardia captain and the friar Padre Hidalgo prisoner for the First Philippine Republic. American troops pursuing General Emilio Aguinaldo reach San Isidro, the two Spaniards are freed, and a garrison under Lieutenant Ike Compton stays to protect the village. The Americans want Rafael's help in hunting the guerrillas, while Simón holds that anyone cooperating with the Americans is a traitor, leaving Rafael caught between the two sides.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Amigo (2010)
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- The screenplay for Amigo was written in two weeks, and the film was then shot over eight months on the island province of Bohol in the Philippines.
- Amigo is almost evenly divided between two languages: forty-eight percent of it is in English and 48 percent in Tagalog, with a little Cantonese and Spanish thrown in.
