17 Mar 2004
The Chorus
In 1940s France, a new teacher at a school for disruptive boys gives hope and inspiration.
A Short Film About the Indio Nacional
(or the Prolonged Sorrow of the Filipinos)
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.
Top Billed Cast
Lemuel Galman Mark Joshua Maclang Russell Ongkeko 
Bodjie Pascua Suzette Velasco
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