Official submission of the Philippines for the 'Best Foreign Language Film' category of the 58th Academy Awards in 1986.
Actress Claudia Zobel died while doing this this film. It was her first serious film after doing a number of softy-porn films. The opening screen dedicates the film to her.
The film included actual footage of demonstration which censors did not let the film to be screened in the Philippines. Director Lino Brocka appealed the Supreme Court to let the film be screened in the country. After about a year after it screening at the Cannes Film Festival, it was screened in the Philippines in November 1985.