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A Short Film About the 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.

Top Cast

  • Lemuel Galman

    Lemuel Galman

  • Mark Joshua Maclang

    Mark Joshua Maclang

  • Russell Ongkeko

    Russell Ongkeko

  • Bodjie Pascua

    Bodjie Pascua

  • Suzette Velasco

    Suzette Velasco

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.

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