A Short Film About the Indio Nacional

A Short Film About the Indio Nacional

#(or the Prolonged Sorrow of the Filipinos)


(6.7 from 8 users)

1h 37m 2005 HD

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.


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