''Alfredo S. Lim: The Untold Story'' is a 2013 Filipino

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action film directed, co-written by, and starring

Cesar Montano Cesar Demontaño Manhilot (born August 1, 1962), known professionally as Cesar Montano (), is a Filipino actor, film producer, film director and aspiring politician. Montano started in show business as a commercial model.Alfredo Lim Alfredo "Fred" Siojo Lim (; December 21, 1929 – August 8, 2020) was a Filipino politician, police officer and lawyer who served as a Senate of the Philippines, Senator of the Philippines from 2004 to 2007, He also served as the 20th Mayor of ...

. Starring alongside Montano is

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, Alwyn Uytingco, Alvin Anson,

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, and Kristel Romero. It is the fourth film to be based on Lim's life as a police officer, after ''Alfredo Lim: Manila Police'' (1977), ''Target... Police General'' (1989), and ''Alfredo Lim: Batas ng Maynila'' (1995). Lim offered Montano the project, who in turn was inspired to showcase events in Lim's life that have not been tackled yet in his previous biopics. Produced by CM Films, the film was released on February 27, 2013, timed to run before Lim's reelection campaign as

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himself, who favored him as director and actor because of his interest in portraying Lim's childhood while others only took interest in his exploits as a police officer. With the film, Montano sought to showcase parts of Lim's life that have not been tackled yet by the three existing biopics of the police general, taking inspiration from a biography of Lim written by

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. The film was publicly announced on October 22, 2012, and had the working title ''Turning Cradle: The Untold Story of Alfredo Lim''. Production began on November 26, 2012, and ended in February 2013. A "Rough Cut" trailer was released on

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through Lim's channel on January 30.

Release

The film premiered at SM City Manila on February 26, 2013, and was released nationwide on February 27, timed for an exhibition run before the campaign period of the

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, where Lim is running a reelection campaign for

. A brief controversy occurred a few weeks before election day (May 13) when Lim handed out a pirated copy of the film to the media for viewing, though his chief of staff Ric de Guzman strongly denied its pirated nature, stating "How can those CDs be pirated when it was the producer himself who gave them to the mayor?"

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*{{IMDb title, tt2734602 2013 films 2010s biographical films 2013 action films Cultural depictions of Alfredo Lim Filipino-language films Films about police officers Films set in the 1930s Films set in the 1960s Philippine action films Philippine biographical films Films directed by Cesar Montano

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