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MESOAMERICAN THEME FILMS
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Apocalypto
(Apocalypse)
Mel
Gibson
USA -
2006 |
In the Maya civilization, a peaceful tribe is brutally attacked by
warriors seeking slaves and human beings for sacrifice for their gods.
Jaguar Paw hides his pregnant wife and his son in a deep hole nearby
their tribe and is captured while fighting with his people. An eclipse
spares his life from the sacrifice and later he has to fight to survive
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1492: The Quest for Paradise
(The Spanish Conquest) |
Big budget account of Christopher Columbus' discovery of the Americas.
Released in 1992 to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the discovery.
Shows the disastrous effects the Europeans had on the original
inhabitants, and Columbus' struggle to civilize the New World. |
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Ripley Scott |
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USA -
1992 |
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The Mission
(The Spanish Jesuits)
Roland Joffe
USA -
1986 |
Jeremy Irons plays a Spanish Jesuit who goes into the South American
wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of
the region. Robert DeNiro plays a slave hunter who is converted and
joins Irons in his mission. When Spain sells the colony to Portugal,
they are forced to defend all they have built against the Portuguese
aggressors. |
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La Otra Conquista
(The Other Conquest)
Salvador Carrasco
Mexico -
1998 |
It is May 1520 in the vast Aztec Empire one year after the Spanish
Conqueror Hernán Cortés' arrival in Mexico. "The Other Conquest" opens
with the infamous massacre of the Aztecs at the Great Temple of
Tenochtitlan [what is now called Mexico City]. The sacred grounds are
covered with the countless bodies of priests and nobility slaughtered by
the Spanish Armies under Cortés' command. The lone Aztec survivor of the
massacre is a young Indian scribe named Topiltzin [Damián Delgado].
Topiltzin, who is the illegitimate son of the Aztec Emperor Moctezuma,
survives the onslaught by burying himself under a stack of bodies. As if
awakening from a dream, the young man rises from among the dead to find
his mother murdered, the Spanish in power and the dawn of a new era in
his native land. A New World with new leaders, language, customs... and
God. |
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