A Short Film About the Indio Nacional (2005)
01/01/2005History, Drama1j 37m
6.7/10
"(or the Prolonged Sorrow of the Filipinos)"
Sinopsis
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.
