Crew
Raya Martin
Producer
Raya Martin
Director
Raya Martin
Writer
Cast
LG
Lemuel Galman
MJ
Mark Joshua Maclang
RO
Russell Ongkeko
Bodjie Pascua
SV
Suzette Velasco
A Short Film About the Indio Nacional
(or the Prolonged Sorrow of the Filipinos)
200597m6.7 (8)
HistoryDrama
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.
