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A Short Film About the Indio Nacional

(OR THE PROLONGED SORROW OF THE FILIPINOS)
6.7/10 2005 4K 97 min
History • Drama

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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A Short Film About the Indio Nacional
Top Cast
Lemuel Galman
Lemuel Galman
Mark Joshua Maclang
Mark Joshua Maclang
Russell Ongkeko
Russell Ongkeko
Bodjie Pascua
Bodjie Pascua
Suzette Velasco
Suzette Velasco

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