Action Documentary Drama
‘Sa Likod ng Tsapa’ (Behind the Badge) is a compelling action-docudrama chronicling the life of Police Colonel Hansel Marantan, a decorated Filipino law enforcement officer thrust into controversy, accused of extrajudicial killings, and imprisoned for a crime many say he did not commit. The film traces Marantan’s meteoric rise in the police force, marked by daring operations against organized crime syndicates, gun runners, bank robbers, and drug syndicates. It plunges into the emotional and political chaos following the infamous Atimonan, Valle Verde, and Parañaque operations---high-risk missions that cost lives and altered his own. When power brokers turned against him, Marantan spent five years behind bars, fighting the case and the silence.