Silent Film: “Batang Quiapo”
TITLE: “Batang Quiapo”
GENRE: Silent Film
DURATION: 16m
DIRECTOR: Al Jacinto (PMPDA)
PLOT: A story of a Filipino girl, Princess, who at her very young age, learns to survive to be able to live the harsh reality of being poor, in a place where muggers and thieves abound. At 4, she was alone – her parents abandoned her at a corner of a busy Manila road, and later found refuge in the arms of a poor woman who raises her as her own daughter. She was born deaf and mute.
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