A Short Film About the Indio Nacional (movie)
Maicling pelicula nañg ysañg Indio Nacional- User score: 6.7
- Production country: Philippines
- Producer: Raya Martin
- Production companies: Atopic films, Hubert Bals Fund
- Genre: History, Drama
- Budget: $10,000
- Release date: 1/1/2005
- Run time: 97 min.
Movie description
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.