A Short Film About the Indio Nacional
(or the Prolonged Sorrow of the Filipinos)
2005 · 1h 37m · N/A
Drama, History
Directed by
Raya Martin
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.
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