Top billed cast

1. 

   Kidlat Tahimik

   Kidlat

2. 

   Mang Fely

   Kaya

3. 

   Dolores Santamaria

   Nanay

4. 

   Georgette Baudry

   Lola

5. 

   Katrin de Guia

   Mutter

6. 

   Hartmut Lerch

   Big Boss

7. 

   Valéry Giscard d'Estaing

   Self (archive footage)

8. 

   Helmut Schmidt

   Self (archive footage)

9. 

   Gerald Ford

   Self (archive footage)

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2026-01-31

Kidlat Tahimik is a charismatic Philipino jeepney driver who is obsessed with Wernher Von Braun - the former Nazi who was helping the American NASA get a rocket on Mars. It could hardly be more of a contrast between his small town existence where the only things not built of bamboo were the church and the ten metre long bridge that spanned the small river near their town. This character has a fairly torrid history: his father was killed by a GI and his open-minded mum lives a fairly hand-to-mouth existence, but that isn’t going to stop him dreaming - and dreaming big. Fortunately for him, hi...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
Tagalog

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• jeepney