A Short Film About the Indio Nacional
(or the Prolonged Sorrow of the Filipinos)
What follows is a black-and-white silent film set in the 1890s during the brewing Filipino revolution against Spanish colonialism. A series of tragic and comic sequences tells the Three Ages of an Indio (“common man”) as he progresses from boy bell ringer in a village church to teenage revolutionary to adult theater actor rehearsing a popular Spanish play.
History
Drama
6.7
8 reviewsRuntime: 97 min.
Budget: $10,000
Revenue: N/A
Release Date: 2005-01-01
Director(s): Raya Martin
Production: Atopic films, Hubert Bals Fund
Languages: Tagalog
IMDB: tt0853150
