A Short Film About the Indio Nacional
- Movies
- 2005-01-01
- TL
- Released
- 2h 37m
- History - Drama
- Budget: $10,000.00
Production
Atopic films, Hubert Bals Fund
Tagline
(or the Prolonged Sorrow of the Filipinos)
Storyline
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.
