A Short Film About the Indio Nacional

(or the Prolonged Sorrow of the Filipinos)

6.7

8 votes

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.

Directed by Raya Martin