A Short Film About the Indio Nacional

Name: A Short Film About the Indio Nacional
Genre: Drama, History
Released: 2005
Duration: 97 min
Cast: Lemuel Galman, Mark Joshua Maclang, Russell Ongkeko, Bodjie Pascua, Suzette Velasco

2005

1h 37min

Drama

History

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Overview

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.