A Short Film About the Indio Nacional 2005

(or the Prolonged Sorrow of the Filipinos)

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History Drama

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.

Release Date 2005-01-01
Runtime 1h 37m
Director Raya Martin
Producers Arleen Cuevas, Raya Martin
Writer Raya Martin