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A Short Film About the Indio Nacional

Film

A Short Film About the Indio Nacional

(or the Prolonged Sorrow of the Filipinos)

6.7

1h 37m

2005

“(or the Prolonged Sorrow of the Filipinos)”

Synopsis

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.

Director

Raya Martin

Trailer

HistoryDrama

philippines

Cast & Crew

Lemuel Galman

Mark Joshua Maclang

Russell Ongkeko

Bodjie Pascua

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Suzette Velasco

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