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A Short Film About the Indio Nacional

A Short Film About the Indio Nacional

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 2005

Runtime

1h 37m

Genres

History, Drama

User Score

67%

Original Title

Maicling pelicula nañg ysañg Indio Nacional

Production Companies

Atopic films, Hubert Bals Fund

Director

Raya Martin

Budget

$10,000

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.