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.

• Release date
• January 1, 2005
• Runtime
• 97 min
• Genres
• History, Drama
• Director
• Raya Martin

Cast

L

Lemuel Galman

M

Mark Joshua Maclang

R

Russell Ongkeko Bodjie Pascua

S

Suzette Velasco