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.
Rating
6.7/10
8 votes
Runtime
97 min
Theatrical cut
Released
2005
Released
Language
TL
Maicling pelicula nañg ysañg Indio Nacional
Cast
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