A Short Film About the Indio Nacional

A Short Film About the Indio Nacional

"(or the Prolonged Sorrow of the Filipinos)"

6.7/101h 37m2005
A Short Film About the Indio Nacional

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.

Genres

HistoryDrama

Production Companies

Atopic films
Hubert Bals Fund

Additional Information

Original Title:Maicling pelicula nañg ysañg Indio Nacional
Original Language:Tagalog
Status:Released
Budget:$10,000

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