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A Short Film About the Indio Nacional

A Short Film About the Indio Nacional

★ 6.7/10•2005•1h 37m•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.

Raya Martin · Director

Raya Martin · Writer

StatusReleased
Runtime1h 37m
LanguageTL
Release DateJan 1, 2005
Budget$10,000

Actors

Lemuel Galman

Mark Joshua Maclang

Russell Ongkeko

Bodjie Pascua

Bodjie Pascua

Suzette Velasco

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