Streaming Providers:

Check theatrical & local broadcast listings

📊 Film Specifications

Director Raya Martin

Writer Raya Martin (Writer)

Original Title Maicling pelicula nañg ysañg Indio Nacional

Release Date January 1, 2005

Runtime 97 min (1h 37m)

Country Philippines

Language TL

Budget $10,000

Box Office N/A

Studios Atopic films • Hubert Bals Fund

A Short Film About the Indio Nacional (2005)

Name: A Short Film About the Indio Nacional
Genre: History, Drama
Released: 2005-01-01
Rating: 3.4

Directed by Raya Martin

• Written by Raya Martin

"(or the Prolonged Sorrow of the Filipinos)"

⭐ 3.4 / 5 (8 votes) ⏱️ 97 min 🎬 History, Drama

Ratings Breakdown:

8 ratings

0.5 Stars 5.0 Stars

Synopsis

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.