A Short Film About the Indio Nacional

Movie"(or the Prolonged Sorrow of the Filipinos)"
Audience Score
67
A Short Film About the Indio Nacional
NR 1 hr 37 minDrama, History
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.
StarringLemuel GalmanMark Joshua MaclangRussell Ongkeko
DirectorRaya Martin
WriterRaya Martin

Movie Details

Movie Budget:$10,000
Original Language:Tagalog
Production Companies:Atopic films, Hubert Bals Fund
Movie Tags:
philippines