Norte, the End of History

Mystery/Drama, Philippines 2013

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Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment meets poetic realism: In his new masterpiece, celebrated in Cannes, Lav Diaz creates a moral portrait of the modern Philippines that leaves one speechless with its cinematic opulence and radical nihilism. The bourgeois law student Fabian has had enough of modern society and finally wants to put his revolutionary ideas into practice. His victim is the pawnbroker in his neighbourhood: he murders her, but the trail of the crime leads to Joaquin, a poor debtor of the murdered woman, who is made to confess without evidence and disappears for years in a high-security prison. Left behind is his wife and their two children, who must now master the daily struggle for survival alone. Lav Diaz weaves these briefly touched plot lines into a brilliant, allusive and exciting social novel in which the individual fates of the protagonists mirror a society damaged by centuries of colonialism and decades of dictatorship.
251 min
HD
FSK 12
Audio language:
EnglishTagalog
Subtitles:
German

Awards

GAWAD URIAN AWARDS 2014 for camera, screenplay, best actress

More information

Director:

Lav Diaz

Template:

Fjodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski (Novel "Crime and Punishment")

Composer:

Perry Dizon

Editor:

Lav Diaz

Producer:

Moira Lang

Cast:

Sid Lucero (Fabian)

Angeli Bayani (Eliza)

Archie Alemania (Joaquin)

Soliman Cruz (Wakwak)

Mae Paner (Magda)

Perry Dizon (Prof. Perry)

Hazel Orencio (Ading)

Ian Lomongo (Cesar)

Kristian Chua (Peryong)

Original title:

Norte, Hangganan ng Kasaysayan

Original language:

Tagalog

Further titles:

Norte, The End of History

Format:

16:9 HD, Color

Age rating:

FSK 12

Audio language:

EnglishTagalog

Subtitles:

German