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Poster for A Short Film About the Indio Nacional

A Short Film About the Indio Nacional (2005)

★ 6.7/10 97 min History, Drama Philippines TL
Director: Raya Martin
Writer: Raya Martin
Streaming: Not available
(or the Prolonged Sorrow of the Filipinos)

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.

Trailer

Top Cast

Lemuel Galman
Mark Joshua Maclang
Russell Ongkeko
Bodjie Pascua
Bodjie Pascua
Suzette Velasco

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