A Short Film About the Indio Nacional

A Short Film About the Indio Nacional

2005
1h 37min

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

Storyline

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.
    Released
    January 2005
    Runtime
    1h 37min
    Director
    Budget
    $10,000
    Genre
    Status
    Released
    Language
    Tagalog
    Production
    Atopic films, Hubert Bals Fund
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