A Short Film About the Indio Nacional

Name: A Short Film About the Indio Nacional
Released: 2005-01-01
Rating: 6.7

"(or the Prolonged Sorrow of the Filipinos)"

⭐ 6.72005-01-0197 minReleased

Revenue

Not Disclosed

Budget

$10,000

Where to Watch

Stream in high quality

In Theaters / VOD

Global Revenue

Not Disclosed

Detailed Plot

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.