A Short Film About the Indio Nacional



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.

(or the Prolonged Sorrow of the Filipinos)

Release date : 2005-01-01

Production country :
Philippines

Production company :
Atopic films, Hubert Bals Fund

Durasi : 97 Min.

Popularity : 1