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Release date: 01/01/2005
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Original language: TL
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A Short Film About the Indio Nacional
(or the Prolonged Sorrow of the Filipinos)
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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.
Alternative titles
Maicling pelicula nañg ysañg Indio Nacional