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A Short Film About the Indio Nacional

Genres

History , Drama

Duration

97 min

Director

Raya Martin

Rating

6.7

Release Date

January 1, 2005

A Short Film About the Indio Nacional

Original title: Maicling pelicula nañg ysañg Indio Nacional

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Synopsis

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.