Controversial

It's what the gossip's all about – Now see it on the screen!

Original title: Kontrobersyal

Duration: 116 min

Release date: 1981-03-20

IMDB

Brocka's potboiler about the rise of a starlet is the quintessential rags-to-riches, prey-turned-predator story, brimming with true-life anecdotes and an authentically acerbic sense of the seamier side of show business.

Drama

Kontrobersyal

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as Teresa / Karina Daluz

Phillip Salvador

Phillip Salvador

as Alain Soriano

as Eddie Randal

as Dick Conrado

Ariosto Reyes Jr.

Ariosto Reyes Jr.

Charlie Peralta

Charlie Peralta

Jonas Sebastian

Jonas Sebastian

as Carla Rivera

Menggie Cobarrubias

Menggie Cobarrubias

Tonio Gutierrez

Tonio Gutierrez

as Crying woman in the elevator (uncredited)

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Augusto Salvador

Augusto Salvador

Production Design

Conrado Baltazar

Conrado Baltazar

Director of Photography

Benjie De Guzman

Benjie De Guzman

Production Design

Sound Effects Editor

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

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