1. Plot

2. Cast

3. Awards and nominations

4. Release

5. See also

6. References

7. External links

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José Rizal is a 1998 Filipino biographical film of the Filipino patriot José Rizal directed by Marilou Diaz-Abaya and starring Cesar Montano as José Rizal.

At the time of its release, it was the most expensive film in the history of Filipino cinema with a budget of over ₱ 80 million. The film was an official entry to the 1998 Metro Manila Film Festival. Upon release, the film met universal critical acclaim.

Plot

Jose Rizal is an imprisoned in Fort Santiago under the abusive Spanish colonization. Meanwhile, in Balintawak, Andrés Bonifacio and his fellow secret organization, the Katipunan, commences the uprising against the tyranny created by the Spaniards by tearing their cedulas as a sign of Spanish slavery.

Soon, a first lieutenant of the Artillery, Luis Taviel de Andrade, visits Rizal. Taviel de Andrade did not waste time to study carefully Rizal's case. In just a short period of time, Rizal and Taviel captured each other's sympathy and eventually became friends as they had usual meetings in Rizal's cell in Fort Santiago. Taviel was even able to celebrate Christmas with Rizal in the cell where they drank pan get and sang together.

After Christmas, Rizal was sent to the Real Audiencia, the colonial court of appeal, to hear the trial against him. Soon after, the magistrates decided to condemn him under firing squad on the 30th of the morning in Luneta.

At the night before the execution, Rizal hallucinates, seeing his alter ego—protagonist, Crisostomo "Simoun" Ibarra, from his second book, El Filibusterismo, tempting him to change the climax of the novel.

On the morning of his execution, his kin receives a small alcohol stove (not a gas lamp as commonly portrayed) from his cell containing the last poem "Mi Ultimo Adios". Stopping at the place of execution facing the rising sun, Rizal requested the authorities for him to face the firing squad, but the request was denied. Calm and without haste, he requested to have his head spared instead and the captain agrees. At the moment the shooting squad points at his back, he readily uttered his final words: Consummatum est ("It is done").

In the events following Rizal's execution, members of the Katipunan begin their armed uprising, completely catching the Spanish forces off guard, seizing their mounts, munitions and their rifles. After that, the organization captures a church and the members executes the friars in an act of vengeance. Later that night, Bonifacio and his top generals meet in their headquarters to plan a new offensive seeking to capture ten towns in a duration of one week from the Spaniards. As Bonifacio continues speaking, the film ends as the camera pans to Rizal's picture at the wall of his headquarters.

Cast

• Cesar Montano as José Rizal
• Jaime Fabregas as Luis Taviel de Andrade

• Chin Chin Gutierrez as Josephine Bracken
• Mickey Ferriols as Leonor Rivera

• Ronnie Lazaro as Francisco Mercado
• Gloria Díaz as Teodora Alonso
• Pen Medina as Paciano Mercado
• Gina Alajar as Saturnina Rizal
• Tanya Gomez as Narcisa Rizal
• Tess Dumpit as Maria Rizal
• Irma Adlawan as Lucia Rizal
• Angie Castrence as Josefa Rizal
• Rowena Basco as Trinidad Rizal
• Kaye Marie June Congmon as Soledad Rizal
• Dominic Guinto as young José Rizal
• Ping Medina as young Paciano Mercado

• Bon Vibar as Governor-General Ramón Blanco
• Subas Herrero as Lt. Enrique de Alcocer
• Tony Mabesa as Governor-General Camilo de Polavieja
• Alexis Santaren as Col. Francisco Olívè
• Archie Adamos as Col. Olívè's aide
• Ryan Eigenmann as Fernando (Spanish classmate at UST)
• Ogie Juliano as Padre Rodríguez

• Peque Gallaga as Archbishop Bernardino Nozaleda, O.P.
• Tony Carreon as a Dominican friar (Gomburza execution)
• Fritz Ynfante as a Dominican friar (professor at UST)
• Jon Achaval as Friar 1
• Cloyd Robinson as Friar 2
• Marco Zabaleta as Friar 3

• Chiqui Xerxes-Burgos as Father José Villaclara, S.J.
• Shelby Payne as Father Estanislao March, S.J.
• Minco Fabregas as Father Francisco de Paula Sanchez, S.J.

• Jhong Hilario as Rizal's prison servant
• Gardo Versoza as Andrés Bonifacio
• Marco Sison as Pio Valenzuela
• Joel Lamangan as a gobernadorcillo
• Nanding Josef as Antonio Rivera
• Pocholo Montes as Justiniano Aquino Cruz
• Bhey Vito as Don Dorotéo Onjungco
• Kidlat Tahimik as a guest (La Liga Filipina meeting)
• Toto Natividad as a Katipunan benefactor

• Dennis Marasigan as Marcelo H. del Pilar
• Mon Confiado as Mariano Ponce
• Gregg de Guzman
• Eddie Aquino
• Manolo Barrientos
• Rolando Inocencio
• Gilbert Onida
• Jim Pebanco
• Troy Martino
• Kokoy Palma
• Richard Merck
• Jess Evardone

• Joel Torre as Crisóstomo Ibarra/Simoun
• Monique Wilson as María Clara
• Nonie Buencamino as Elías
• Roeder Camañag as Basílio
• Richard Quan as Isagani
• Cristobal Gomez as Padre Damaso

• Jesus Díaz as ophthalmology professor in Spain
• Karl Meyer as Kalbong printer
• LJ Moreno as Josephine Bracken's companion

Awards and nominations

• 1998 Metro Manila Film Festival
  • Best Picture
  • Best Actor (Cesar Montano)
  • Best Director (Marilou Diaz-Abaya)
  • Best Supporting Actor (Jaime Fabregas)
  • Best Supporting Actress (Gloria Diaz)
  • Best Screenplay (Ricky Lee, Jun Lana and Peter Ong Lim)
  • Best Original Story (Ricky Lee, Jun Lana and Peter Ong Lim)
  • Best Cinematography (Rody Lacap)
  • Best Editing (Jess Navarro and Manet Dayrit)
  • Best Sound Production (Mike Idioma)
  • Best Production Design (Leo Abaya)
  • Best Special Effects (Mark Ambat of Optima Digital)
  • Best Makeup (Denni Yrastorza Tan)
  • Best Musical Score (Nonong Buencamino)
  • Best Movie Theme Song (Nonong Buencamino for "Awit ni Maria Clara")
  • Best Festival Float
  • Gatpuno Antonio J. Villegas Cultural Awards
• 1999 FAMAS Awards
  • Best Picture
  • Best Actor (Cesar Montano)
  • Best Director (Marilou Diaz-Abaya)
  • Best Supporting Actor (Jaime Fabregas)
  • Best Cinematography (Rody Lacap)
  • Best Editing (Jess Navarro and Manet A. Dayrit)
  • Best Movie Theme Song (Nonong Buencamino for "Awit ni Maria Clara")
  • Best Musical Direction (Nonong Buencamino)
  • Best Production Design (Leo Abaya)
  • Best Screenplay (Ricardo Lee, Jun Lana and Peter Ong Lim)
  • Best Special Effects (Rolando Santo Domingo)
• 1999 Gawad Urian Awards
  • Best Direction (Marilou Diaz-Abaya)
  • Best Cinematography (Rody Lacap)
  • Best Music (Nonong Buencamino)
  • Best Production Design (Leo Abaya)
  • Best Sound (Albert Michael Idioma)
  • Best actress (Gorgonia Del Rivaera)
  • Best Supporting Actor (Jaime Fabregas)
• 1999 Star Awards for Movies
  • Movie of the Year
  • Actor of the Year (Cesar Montano)
  • Director of the Year (Marilou Diaz-Abaya)
  • Supporting Actor of the Year (Jaime Fabregas)
  • Adapted Screenplay of the Year (Ricardo Lee, Jun Lana and Peter Ong Lim)
  • Editor of the Year (Jess Navarro and Manet A. Dayrit)
  • Musical Scorer of the Year (Nonong Buencamino)
  • Production Designer of the Year (Leo Abaya)
  • Sound Engineering of the Year (Albert Michael Idioma)

The film has been screened and ran in competition in different film festivals worldwide and included in the Official Selection for Panorama in the Berlin International Film Festival (1998). It also won 2nd runner-up in the Audience Award of the Toronto Filmfest and the Chicago International Film Festival.{{citation needed|date=January 2013}}

Release

The series was released onto DVD-format and VCD-format by GMA Records Home Video and distributed by Viva Video.

See also

• Philippine Revolution
• History of the Philippines
• Governor-General of the Philippines

References

• Tenth Anniversary of Jose Rizal Film

External links

• {{IMDb title|0186257}}
• {{rotten-tomatoes|jose-rizal}}
• Creative Journal about Jose Rizal

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