A Short Film About the Indio Nacional

01/01/2005

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1hr 37min

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History

,Drama

(or the Prolonged Sorrow of the Filipinos)

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Lemuel Galman
  • Mark Joshua Maclang
  • Russell Ongkeko
  • Bodjie Pascua
  • Suzette Velasco

    Directors

  • Khavn
  • Raya Martin

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Atopic films
  • Hubert Bals Fund

    Production Countries

  • Philippines

LANGUAGES

  • Tagalog

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