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Badlis sa Kinabuhi

1969 Filipino film

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ137368492 ↗
Source-derived summary

Badlis sa Kinabuhi (English: The Line of Life) is a 1969 Philippine drama film starring Gloria Sevilla and Mat Ranillo Jr..

Production

Badlis sa Kinabuhi is a Cebuano-language film directed by Leroy Salvador and written by Junipher under MG Productions. It was filmed in black-and-white.

Release

Badlis was released in April 1969 in the Philippines. It was known to have been featured at the 16th Asian Film Festival in Jakarta within the same year and in Berlin in the following year.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Badlis sa Kinabuhi” as 1969 Filipino film. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1969—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Badlis, Kinabuhi and Filipino can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 1969 Filipino film. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q137368492. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1969.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Badlis sa Kinabuhi”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Badlis sa Kinabuhi primary sources, Badlis sa Kinabuhi archive and Badlis research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Badlis sa Kinabuhi” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.