Key Details
Release StatusReleased
Release Date2005-01-01
Languagetl
Runtime1h 37m
Budget$10,000
Production
Atopic films, Hubert Bals Fund
6.7(8)
•2005•1h 37mA Short Film About the Indio Nacional
"(or the Prolonged Sorrow of the Filipinos)"
Overview
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.
Principal Cast
5 credited
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