
A Short Film About the Indio Nacional
History | Drama
6.7
Release Date
January 1, 2005
Duration
97 min
Status
Released
Language
tl
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.