A Short Film About the Indio Nacional
MovieTitle | Maicling pelicula nañg ysañg Indio Nacional |
User score | 6.7 |
Release date | Jan 1, 2005 |
Genre | History, Drama |
Director | Raya Martin |
Production country | Philippines |
Production companies | Atopic films, Hubert Bals Fund |
Budget | $10,000 |
Run time | 97 min. |
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.