A Short Film About the Indio Nacional
“(or the Prolonged Sorrow of the Filipinos)”
6.7/ 10 8 votes 2005-01-01 1h 37m 1 popularity
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.
Director: Raya Martin
Budget
$10,000
Lemuel Galman
Mark Joshua Maclang
Russell Ongkeko
Bodjie Pascua
Suzette Velasco
