History ·Drama · Philippines · 2005 · 1h 37m

A Short Film About the Indio Nacional

Maicling pelicula nañg ysañg Indio Nacional

Synopsis

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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