A Short Film About the Indio Nacional
(or the Prolonged Sorrow of the Filipinos)
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.
- Year: 2005
- Country: Philippines
- Genre: History, Drama
- Studio: Atopic films, Hubert Bals Fund
- Keyword: philippines
- Director: Raya Martin
- Cast: Lemuel Galman, Mark Joshua Maclang, Russell Ongkeko, Bodjie Pascua, Suzette Velasco