A Short Film About the Indio Nacional

A Short Film About the Indio Nacional

"(or the Prolonged Sorrow of the Filipinos)"
  • 2005
  • 1 hr 37 min
  •  6.7  (8)
  •   Released

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.

A Short Film About the Indio Nacional
Madaling Araw by Sylvia la Torre

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Description
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.
  • Release Date
    2005
  • Runtime
    1 hr 37 min
  • Language
    tl
  • Rating
    6.7  (8)