A Short Film About the Indio Nacional
2005 · 97 min · History, Drama
(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.
- Director
- Raya Martin
- Writer
- Raya Martin
- Released
- January 1, 2005
- Language
- Filipino
Cast
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