(or the Prolonged Sorrow of the Filipinos)
(8)
Rating
3.4
Release Date
2005-01-01
Run time
97min
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.
