A Short Film About the Indio Nacional
(or the Prolonged Sorrow of the Filipinos)
January 1, 2005
97 min
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History
Drama
6.7
User Score
8 votes
About
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.
Movie Info
Status: Released
Director: Raya Martin
Runtime: 97 min
Budget: $10,000
Top Cast
Lemuel Galman
Mark Joshua Maclang
Russell Ongkeko
Bodjie Pascua
Suzette Velasco
