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A Short Film About the Indio Nacional

Name: A Short Film About the Indio Nacional
Director: Raya Martin
Genre: History, Drama
Released: 2005-01-01
Duration: 97 min
Rating: 6.7
Cast: Lemuel Galman, Mark Joshua Maclang, Russell Ongkeko, Bodjie Pascua, Suzette Velasco

20051h 37m6.7Directed by Raya Martin

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.

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