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A Short Film About the Indio Nacional poster

(or the Prolonged Sorrow of the Filipinos)

A Short Film About the Indio Nacional (2005)

January 1, 20051h 37mTL
6.7

8 votes

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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Status

Released

Original Language

Tagalog

Budget

$10K

Revenue

N/A

Production Companies

Atopic filmsHubert Bals Fund

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