A Short Film About the Indio Nacional Poster

A Short Film About the Indio Nacional

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: 2005

Rating: 6.7

Genre: History, Drama

Duration: 97 min

Country: Philippines

Production: Atopic films, Hubert Bals Fund

Cast

Lemuel Galman

Lemuel Galman

as

Mark Joshua Maclang

Mark Joshua Maclang

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Russell Ongkeko

Russell Ongkeko

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Bodjie Pascua

Bodjie Pascua

as

Suzette Velasco

Suzette Velasco

as

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