6.7

A Short Film About the Indio Nacional

Name: A Short Film About the Indio Nacional
Director: Raya Martin
Genre: Drama, History
Released: 2005-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z
Duration: 97 min
Rating: 6.7
Cast: Lemuel Galman, Mark Joshua Maclang, Russell Ongkeko, Bodjie Pascua, Suzette Velasco

(Maicling pelicula nañg ysañg Indio Nacional)

“(or the Prolonged Sorrow of the Filipinos)”

20051h 37m

DramaHistory

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.