A Short Film About the Indio Nacional
A Short Film About the Indio Nacional
6.7 Maicling pelicula nañg ysañg Indio Nacional
2005, 1 h 37 m
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.