
About the film

philippines
A Short Film About the Indio Nacional
Release Date: January 01, 2005
Year | : | 2005 |
Slogan | : | «(or the Prolonged Sorrow of the Filipinos)» |
Genres | : | History, Drama |
Production Companies | : | Atopic films, Hubert Bals Fund |
Director | : | Raya Martin |
Producers | : | Raya Martin, Arleen Cuevas |
Writers | : | Raya Martin |
RunTime | : | 97 mins. |
Budget | : | 10000 |
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.
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