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    Mission, The (1986)

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    Spanish Jesuit Father Gabriel (Jeremy Irons) travels to the South American wilderness in 1750 to build a mission in order to convert the indigenous Guaraní people. Slave hunter Rodrigo Mendoza (Robert De Niro) is converted and joins Irons in his mission.

    When Spain sells the colony to Portugal, both must defend the mission against the Portuguese aggressors.

    Director Roland Joffe and producer David Puttnam followed the international success of The Killing Fields (1984) with this epic story of the confrontation between missionaries and colonisers in the jungles of South America.

    While undeniably spectacular and featuring committed performances by De Niro and Irons, The Mission was not as well received as the production team’s previous film.

    It is, in part, an epistolary epic, employing the device of letters to explain what happened to the mission founded by Father Gabriel and which Mendoza, who killed his brother, has joined.

    The missionaries crave a society in which Christian natives will live peacefully with Spanish and Portuguese alike. But the colonial governors would rather enslave the Indians and order the destruction of the mission.

    Gabriel and Mendoza disagree on how to respond: one believing in the power of prayer and passive resistance, the other in armed rebellion.

    Rodrigo Mendoza
    Robert De Niro
    Father Gabriel
    Jeremy Irons
    Carlotta
    Cherie Lunghi
    Cardinal Altamirano
    Ray McAnally
    Felipe Mendoza
    Aidan Quinn
    Hontar
    Ronald Pickup
    Cabeza
    Chuck Low
    Fielding
    Liam Neeson
    Sebastian
    Daniel Berrigan

    Director
    Roland Joffe

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