A Short Film About the Indio Nacional

  • Cast: Lemuel Galman, Mark Joshua Maclang, Russell Ongkeko, Bodjie Pascua, Suzette Velasco
  • Duration: 97 minutes
  • Genre: History, Drama
  • Rating: 6.7/10
  • Release Date: 2005-01-01

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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