Cain at Abel

Señora Pina rules with an iron fist over the family farm otherwise managed by her eldest son, Lorenz. Despised by his mother since his early childhood, Lorenz has lived in the shadow of his younger brother Ellis, who has gone to study in Manila. When Ellis arrives from the city with his fiancée and declares that he will take over the farm, the family's destiny turns into horror and fratricidal war.
“Cain and Abel” is a dazzling transposition of the biblical tale into the Philippines of the 1980’s, telling the story of a family torn apart by love and hate, exploring the eternal struggle between good and evil with a modern eye. As a mult-faceted work that can be read in many ways, a hardly veiled allegory of the terrible dictatorship of Marcos, Lino Brocka’s work is both a melodrama and an action film.