A Short Film About the Indio Nacional (2005)
All the adventure a man can live, he lives.
2005-01-01
Philippines
97 Min.
PG-13
History, Drama
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.

