A Short Film About the Indio Nacional

Name: A Short Film About the Indio Nacional
Director: Raya Martin
Genre: History, Drama
Released: 2005
Rating: 6.7
Cast: Lemuel Galman, Mark Joshua Maclang, Russell Ongkeko, Bodjie Pascua, Suzette Velasco

"(or the Prolonged Sorrow of the Filipinos)"

6.7/10

2005

1h 37m

History

Drama

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.