A Short Film About the Indio Nacional

A Short Film About the Indio Nacional 2005 Directed by Raya Martin Maicling pelicula nañg ysañg Indio Nacional

(or the Prolonged Sorrow of the Filipinos)

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.

Country Philippines

Production Country Philippines

Language Tagalog

Spoken Language Tagalog

Gneres Drama , History

Production Companies Hubert Bals Fund , Atopic films

Budget $10,000

Release Date 1 January 2005

97 mins