A Short Film About the Indio Nacional
Fans of History, Drama films may find A Short Film About the Indio Nacional especially interesting thanks to its engaging atmosphere, visual presentation, and entertainment value.
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.
