Released
A Short Film About the Indio Nacional
January 1 2005 (almost 20 years ago)Rating
67
Based on
8 reviews
(or the Prolonged Sorrow of the Filipinos)
- Director: Raya Martin
- Genres: History, Drama
- Runtime: 1 h 37 m
- Budget: $10,000
- Country: Philippines
- Companies: Atopic films, Hubert Bals Fund
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.
