Underplayed Gems

Secreto de confesión (1939)

Secreto de confesión poster
Original title
Secreto de Confesion
Directed by
Don Dano
Genre
drama film
Country
Philippines
Runtime
1h 30m
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A priest hears a confession that puts him in a difficult position. The film explores the weight of keeping secrets and the tension between duty and morality.

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What happens

Secreto de Confesión (lit. 'Secrets of Confession') was the first Filipino film in the Spanish language, it was presented at the time as la primera película hablada y cantada en español producida en Filipinas ("the first film spoken and sung in Spanish in the Philippines"). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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