A Short Film About the Indio Nacional
(or the Prolonged Sorrow of the Filipinos)
Rating
6.7
Release Date
2005
Runtime
1h 37m
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.
Audience Pulse
6.7 / 10
Rating · 8 votes
Box Office
Budget
$10,000
