It opens with the beginning of hostilities with the American occupiers, and ends with the assassination of Luna on Ja period in which Luna. On June 5, 1899, he was assassinated by physical force and stabbing by his own people - Filipino soldiers whom Luna had either insulted, arrested, or disarmed for insubordination. General Luna) is a 2015 Filipino historical biopic film depicting General Antonio Luna's leadership of the Philippine Republican Army during the PhilippineAmerican War. Insubordination and confusion among Filipino troops eventually caused Luna to resign as general, though three weeks later he returned to the army. The battles that followed between the Philippine and American armies were horrific. The paper was a huge success.ĭecember of 1898 brought the Treaty of Paris, in which Spain turned control of the Philippines over to the United States.