The Manila Film Centre Tragedy

On 18 January 1982, Imelda Marcos walked up a red carpet in peacock feathers to open the first Manila International Film Festival. Hollywood stars were there. Champagne flowed. The Greek-style temple on Manila Bay was supposed to make the city the Cannes of the East.

Two months earlier, in the middle of the night, part of the building had collapsed on the workers racing to finish it. Rescuers weren't allowed in for nine hours. Some say well over a hundred men died, and that some were never recovered. The architect said seven. Nobody has ever published a list of names.

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