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A Short Film About the Indio Nacional
"(or the Prolonged Sorrow of the Filipinos)"
Original title: Maicling pelicula nañg ysañg Indio Nacional
January 1, 2005
1h 37m
6.7/10
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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