A Short Film About the Indio Nacional
Directed by Raya Martin2006 1h 37m[History](/on-demand/category/history), [Drama](/on-demand/category/drama)
6.56.7
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.
