Maicling pelicula nañg ysañg Indio Nacional

(or the Prolonged Sorrow of the Filipinos)

• History
• Drama

• 97 Mins
• 2005
• tl

• star6.7/ 10

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.