A Short Film About the Indio Nacional

2005

  

6.7 / 10

  • tl
  • History, Drama,
  • 97 mins
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.


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