Baler

Baler is a 2008 drama film and the official entry of VIVA Films in the 2008 Metro Manila Film Festival, starring Anne Curtis and Jericho Rosales. Its first screening was on December 25, 2008, simultaneously with the rest of the 2008 Metro Manila Film Festival film entries.

In 1898, a band of Spanish soldiers heroically defended Baler (which was not yet the capital municipality of Aurora until 1951) against Filipino forces for 337 long and grueling days. The battle, now referred to as the Siege of Baler, is the setting of a forbidden love between a Mestizo soldier (Jericho Rosales) and a Filipina lass (Anne Curtis) who lived at the end of the 19th century.

Characters:
Anne Curtis - Feliza Reyes
Jericho Rosales - Celso Resurreccion
Phillip Salvador - Daniel Reyes
Andrew Schimmer - Lt. Jose Mota
Baron Geisler - Capt. Enrique Fossi de las Morenas
Ryan Eigenmann - 2nd Lt. Saturnino Martin Cerezo
Carlo Aquino - Gabriel Reyes
Nikki Bacolod - Luming
Mark Bautista- Lope
Joe Goodall - American Soldier
Jeremiah Rosales- Jaime Caldenay
Lindley Lumantas - Ilong
Joel Torre-Commandante Teodorico Luna Novicio
Alvin Anson- Catalan
Mark Lagang - Alom
Michael de Mesa - Fr. Candido Gomez Carreno
Rio Locsin - Azon Reyes
John Richards - American Captain
Johnny Solomon- Emilio Aguinaldo
DJ Durano - Pablo/Ambo
Leo Martinez - Col. Calixto Villacorte
Bernard Palanca - Lt. Juan Alonzo Zayas
Miguel Gonzales - Celso Reyes Resurrecion Jr.
Jao Mapa - Mauro
Mikel Campos - Flag Bearer
Spyke Perez
Vince Edwards
Billy Ray Afable
Alan Perez
Allen Dizon - Lt. Col. Simon Tecson




Directed by Mark Meily
Written by Roy C. Iglesias
December 25, 2008