A Short Film About the Indio Nacional

Jan 1, 2005

1h 37m

★ 6.7

(or the Prolonged Sorrow of the Filipinos)

Overview

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.

Genres

History

Drama

Production Companies

Atopic films

Hubert Bals Fund

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Cast

Lemuel Galman

Mark Joshua Maclang

Russell Ongkeko

Bodjie Pascua

Suzette Velasco

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A Short Film About the Indio Nacional

Overview

Genres

Production Companies

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