Ishmael Bernal

Ishmael Bernal was born on 30 September 1938 in Manila, the natural son of a married man. A graduate in French literature and philosophy at Aix-en-Provence, then in cinema, he was, with Brocka, a leading figure of the second Philippine golden age. He made some forty films in twenty years, often melodramas that tackled moral questions and the condition of women head-on, wrote about cinema and also directed in theatre and on television. He died on 2 June 1996 and was named National Artist posthumously in 2001.

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• CinemaRelasyonIshmael Bernal · 1982Cinema